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What age should you give your children peanuts? This guidance helped 60,000 kids avoid allergies

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent the development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.

About 60,000 American children have avoided developing peanut allergies after guidance first issued in 2015 changed medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as four months.

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