Jan 01 2008
Reduce your peanut consumption for the sake of your kids
January, 1
These days a new allergy is making children restless, researchers have found that too-much consumption of peanuts could lead to allergies in infants. According to the study undertaken, those families who are inclined to consume more peanuts are risking their small ones to develop peanut-allergies. The study conducted by the Food Standards Agency has found that exposure of peanuts through skin or inhalation might be the cause for these allergies in children.
Another essential founding of this research was the rise in the household consumption of peanuts, which averagely per household peanut consumption is 29.1g per week, but has gone up to 77.2g in those families whose kids are caught by this allergy. Even it was noticed that egg allergies are also reported in children. But the peanut allergies are increasingly affecting infants.
As per the study the risk of catching peanut allergies are more with those kids who have a higher environmental exposure to peanuts in the early life in the families. And they develop the allergies. So to cut down the rates of this growing allergy, it is advised that the families should make sure they control their peanut consumption level.