A recent study by a Melbourne scientist revealed that soy milk does not cause peanut allergies in kids.

Jennifer Koplin, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne together with the Murdoch Children’s Institute has discovered that there is no connection between soy milk and allergic reaction.

As a part of the study, Koplin collected the information on 690 children, from the Melbourne Atopy Cohort Study, in order to check which allergies they developed, if any.

Each and every child was fed with either dairy milk, soy milk or a hydrolysed milk formula.

Koplin said, “There’s a bit of a myth out there that drinking soy milk can bring on peanut allergies.”

“Our study proved drinking cows milk, or soy milk, makes no difference to whether an allergy develops in a child.”

“The good news for parents is that they can now feed their children on soy milk and not have to worry about getting peanut allergies,” she added.

A study conducted in 2003 had claimed that soy milk cause peanut allergies.

But, the recent study challenges those findings.

Koplin is now involved in a further study, executed by the Murdoch Children's Institute and led by Dr. Katie Allen, looking for additional factors to do with peanut allergies.

The researchers will be studying five thousand children, aged 12 months old, to decide how many of them develop allergies, why some do and some don’t, and why allergies are more common now than in the past times.

“The study is looking at things such as the timing of food into diet - does it cause an allergy if eggs or peanuts are introduced earlier, or later?” she said.