A new study suggests introducing peanut products into the diets of infants who are at high risk of developing a peanut allergy is not only safe, but leads to an 81 percent reduction in the development of the allergy.
The study, called Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP), was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and was conducted by the NIAID-funded Immune Tolerance NetworkExternal Web Site Policy (ITN).