Two new researches were undertaken to gain better insight into how kids can deal with foods that are typically responsible for causing allergies. Both the studies have suggested that giving peanuts and other foods responsible for allergies are helpful in protecting them against allergies rather than causing problems. Offering small portion develops resistance against allergic reactions. One of the studies was a follow-up to a milestone research that was published last year.

This follow-up research revealed that the early prevention approach can result in long-term and persistent outcomes in kids, who are vulnerable to food allergies. Feeding kids with allergy-causing foods, early in life, resulted in protection against allergy until the age of a minimum of five years and the protection level did not reduce even if the child did not consume food containing peanut for a year. This suggests that kids, who are susceptible to allergies and are not willing to consume peanut butter every week, can stop the consumption for an year without any danger.

The second research was a new one and recommended that the early feeding strategy is also successful with eggs that are considered to be another strong allergy-inducing food among young kids. The research revealed that children who were fed with peanuts and eggs starting with the age of three months were less prone to developing allergies against these foods, as compared to those children who were only fed breast milk.

Allergy from foods has become a common problem in the United States, and that too quite a serious one and at times fatal. Food allergies are becoming a common problem in children in several nations, with up to 8% of children below the age of three years affected by them.

In the US, peanut allergies are detected in approximately 2% children. Last year’s landmark study was the first one “to show that early introduction of peanut can prevent the development of allergy to it”, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.