Peanut: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food
- Whether or not your baby is at high risk for peanut allergy
- When to start offering peanut protein and how often to reintroduce
- 3 easy ways to make peanuts safe for your baby to eat once they start solid foods
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Episode Description
How do you know if your baby is allergic to peanuts? The only way to know is to offer your baby peanut. In this episode I’m sharing 3 easy ways to safely offer your baby peanut with tips on how to reintroduce peanut early and often to help lower the risk of peanut allergy.
Other Episode Related to this Topic
- Episode 136 - Peanut Butter Puffs for Safely Introducing Peanuts to Babies: A Conversation with @puffworks Founder Greg Murphy
- Episode 274 - Baby Has Skin Reactions to Milk, Egg and Peanut: What Should I Do Next? with Carina Venter, PhD, RDN
- Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD
- Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH
Links from Episode
- Puffworks Baby Peanut Butter Puffs use affiliate code BLWPOD for 15% off at checkout, shop here: https://puffworks.com/discount/BABYLED?redirect=/pages/baby-led
- Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
- Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://workshop.babyledweaning.co
Resources & Research
- Abrams, Elissa M et al. “Pros and cons of pre-emptive screening programmes before peanut introduction in infancy.” The Lancet. Child & adolescent health vol. 4,7 (2020): 526-535.
- Du Toit, George et al. “Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 372,9 (2015): 803-13.
- Du Toit, George et al. “Effect of Avoidance on Peanut Allergy after Early Peanut Consumption.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 374,15 (2016): 1435-43.
- Peters, Rachel L et al. “Natural history of peanut allergy and predictors of resolution in the first 4 years of life: A population-based assessment.” The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology vol. 135,5 (2015): 1257-66.e1-2.
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