Child Health: Peanut Allergy Solution For Children

In the United States, the major portion of  the population, including children suffers from peanut allergy. The peanut allergy has a larger consequence than many people think. Most of the parents prefer to keep their children away from peanuts to avoid the danger, which is not at all a solution for this problem.

So many studies and discussions were happening based on the peanut allergy in children. Much research has been taking place to find out the solution for the peanut allergy in children. The New York Times has reported the new guidelines for peanut allergy on Jan 5, 2017, which was issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

A new approach known as 'game changing' according to Dr. Antony Fauci, is introduced for the peanut allergy in children. In the new approach, the parents are advised to give peanuts for the children before they are six months old. And whole peanuts shouldn't be given to the children as they are dangerous for the children of that age.

The guidelines author and also the chairman of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's food allergy committee, Dr. Matthew Greenhawt said to the New York Times that "You have the potential to stop something in its tracks before it develops. It appears there is a window of time in which the body is more likely to tolerate a food than react to it, and if you can educate the body during that window, you're at much lower likelihood of developing an allergy to that food,"

The approach really helps to reduce the possibility of such an allergy in children. Before trying to give peanut content food to the children it is advisable to start some other sort of solid food to the children from four to six months. As per the information from CNN, the children should have a blood test or a skin prick to check the possibility of developing peanut allergy before trying to give any sort of peanut product to them.

The children with no family history of peanut allergy is less likely to develop the peanut allergy. Anaphylaxis and if very rarely death can be caused in the extreme case of peanut allergy.