Doesn’t it seem like food allergies have skyrocketed? Some researchers put two and two together and decided that maybe we should go back to giving more food varieties earlier in the growth process. In other words, waiting until after a year of age to introduce things like eggs and peanuts may actually make the allergy more prevalent. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association eggs should be introduced between 4-6 months and peanuts between 4-11 months. According to the study, early introduction could head off 24 cases of egg allergy per 1,000 and 18 cases of peanut allergy per 1,000. It will be interesting to see how getting back to basic common sense parenting will help us fix some of these problems we have inadvertently created through the process of overthinking.
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