Peanut Allergy Doesn’t Always Have To Be Inherited
April 11, 2010 by Jimmy Harden
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Any parent who has a child with a nut allergy and they will tell you haw hard it makes life for all the rest of the family too. Your grocery shop takes hours as you have to scrutinize every label to ensure it is safe for your child to eat.
All nut allergies are problematic, but the main one that can result in death an allergy to peanuts. The allergic sensitivity is so high that contact with another person who has been in contact with peanuts can put the sufferers life in peril.
The problem with peanut allergies is that they aren’t normally diagnosed until they are at least 2 or 3 years of age. If anyone else in the family suffers from this allergy, don’t let your child come into anything remotely peanut related until they are 3 years old at least.
Some doctors even tell their pregnant patients not to eat any peanuts while in their last 3 months; regardless of a history of allergy’s or not.
They don’t represent the majority of doctors, but you may be interested to know what they have to say and why.
The reason for this is that it’s possible for some of the protein in the peanuts to go into the baby via the placenta. Another study has shown that if you eat peanuts, peanut butter etc, increases the chances of your baby developing the allergy four fold.
If you or your partner has no allergies, and there is none is either family, you needn’t avoid peanuts like the plague. Both the peanut and its butter are actually nutritionally beneficial.
Please remember that there have been times when women with no histories of allergies have freely eaten peanuts throughout their pregnancy, only for their children to then develop the allergy. This gives you more reason to consider playing it on the safe side of things.
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