LB (and others)
Did you know that there are tremendously fewer people allergic to peanuts here in EY than in places like US and England. The advice given to pregnant women used to be to stay away from highly allergic things, like peanuts, during pregnancy and not to give these things to children in the first two years. But in EY, bamba is the favorite snack of all children and is given to babies as little as 4-6 months old (depending on when they start food). Researchers in the last few years are beginning to find that early exposure (and not avoiding exposure during pregnancy) unless there are high risk factors for the allergy are not necessary for the average woman and baby and that early exposure of things like peanuts when giving the baby first foods is becoming more recommended. Again, this is in cases when there are no high risk factors for a potential peanut allergy for that family. I think I even saw online this week some kind of product that provides low-level exposure and steadily increases it (something like allergy shots) that is being made for peanut allergies. I have no other information about it, but hopefully peanut allergies will decline in the future, given the newer recommendations about consumption.
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