Prevent Peanut Allergy in Babies, Guidelines to Reduce Risk

Clinical guidelines to assist health services to explain how to prevent peanut allergy in babies, and the introduction of baby foods to prevent the development of peanut allergies. Guidelines for prevention of peanut allergy and egg sponsored by Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

This guide explains in three separate guidelines for infants with various levels of risk for development of peanut allergy. Guidelines targeted to health care providers, including pediatricians and family practice physicians. For a while, guidelines on how to treat peanut allergy and egg applied in the United States, likely to be the basis for prevent peanut allergy in babies guidelines in the world.

Prevent Peanut Allergy in Babies

In 2015, NIAID established a committee representing 26 professional organizations, advocacy groups and federal agencies that specifically address the prevention of peanut allergy. Coordination committee composed of 26 specialists from various fields of clinical health, science and the relevant public. They review the literature several studies prevention of food allergies and cites the opinion of experts to prepare draft guidelines. These guidelines are available on the NIAID website accessible to the public from March 4 until April 18, 2016.

Bean and egg allergy regarded as a growing health problem and there is no cure. Child and caregivers who have peanut allergy, should be wary of the food and the environment to avoid allergic reactions. These allergies can look severe and even life-threatening. Allergies tend to be balance in childhood and persist into adulthood. But according to a recent study shows that introducing foods containing peanuts in the diet during infancy can prevent peanut allergy in the future.

1. The first guidelines on how to prevent peanut allergy in babies, focusing on infants who are consider at high risk of developing a peanut allergy. At this age they are already suffering from severe eczema, allergic to eggs, or even both. Experts recommend that such infants should given foods containing peanuts in their diet since the age of 4 to 6 months.
2. The introduction of peanut foods to reduce the risk of developing a peanut allergy should done since they were babies. Parents and caregivers should check the baby's healthcare provider before giving food containing peanuts. Perform allergy blood test or send the baby to a specialist for other tests, such as skin prick test or challenge of feeding. The results of these tests will help to decide, whether the beans and eggs safely administered to the baby food diet.
3. The second guidance about how to prevent peanut allergy explain mild or moderate eczema. Babies in this condition should given foods containing peanuts. These foods introduced into their diet at the age of 6 months to reduce the risk of peanut allergy. 
4. The third guideline, baby without eczema or food allergies given food containing peanuts freely into their diet.

Actually, peanut allergies possible to prevented by the introduction of foods containing peanuts. Results of clinical trials in February 2015 and involved 600 infants explained, regular nut consumption begins in infancy and continues until the age of 5 years will lead to a reduction in the development of peanut allergy in infants reached 81 percent. But otherwise the scientists think it is risky because there some infants suffered from severe eczema, allergic to eggs, or both.

According to the scientist, living with a peanut allergy requires constant vigilance. Preventing the development of peanut allergy will improve and save lives and health care costs are lower. Implementation by providing a way to cure peanut allergy and eggs within the guidelines given to the health care provider will prevent the development of peanut allergy in children who are vulnerable. These guidelines expected to reduce the risk of peanut allergy in the future.

• This reference is published in the journal "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Report of the NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel". Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.10.010
• NIH-Sponsored Expert Panel Issues Clinical Guidelines to Prevent Peanut Allergy, January 2017, by NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
• Baby eating baby food, image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons