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Want To Avoid Peanut Allergies? Start Young, Says WMC Want To Avoid Peanut Allergies? Start Young, Says WMC
Want To Avoid Peanut Allergies? Start Young, Says WMC Forget everything you’ve ever learned about slowly introducing peanuts to your baby, because according to Dr. Subhadra Siegel, pediatric allergist and immunologist at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, the recommendation to avoid peanuts with babies is a thing of the past. “The old recommendation was to avoid peanuts and nuts until the age of 3, but there was no data to support that this reduced allergies,” Dr. Siegel explained. “The new recommendation, which came out in January 2017, is to introduce peanuts as early as 7 to 11 months…

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