Eating Nuts While Pregnant Cuts Childs Risk of Allergy Pregnant women who eat peanuts or tree nuts are less likely than others to have a child with a nut allergy, researchers report. The more nuts women ate during their pregnancies, the less likely their child was to be allergic, according to the study, which included nearly 11,000 mothers and children, who were followed from birth through adolescence. The number of allergic kids has grown of late. The prevalence of a peanut or tree nut allergy more than tripled from 1997 to 2010, when it reached 1.4 percent of kids. In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised pregnant women to avoid peanuts and tree nuts while pregnant or nursing, to avoid exposing infants, and to keep kids away from nuts until age three. The pediatric academy reversed this advice in 2008, telling women there was no need to avoid nuts during pregnancy or early childhood. The study, led by Michael Young of Boston Childrens Hospital, was published in JAMA Pediatrics. From Eating Nuts While Pregnant Cuts Childs Risk of Allergy USA Today (12/24/13) Szabo, Liz
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:44:19 +0000
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