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Why feeding your baby peanuts and eggs may prevent allergies

Traditional advice to parents has been to delay the introduction of foods like peanuts and eggs when they wean their babies onto solid food, in order to reduce the risk of food allergies later in life. But conventional wisdom has been turned on its head with a new body of evidence suggesting the opposite is true. In a new survey of the latest data, the Director of Imperial College's Paediatric Research Unit, Dr Robert Boyle, tells Dr Mark Porter that the two most common childhood food allergies, to peanuts and eggs, may be prevented by introducing them early.

First broadcast on Inside Health, 21 September 2016.

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