Introducing babies to gluten-rich foods such as Weetabix from four months of age could prevent them from developing wheat allergies as they get older, study finds. Allergy-related foods given to the infants in the early weening group included gluten, sesame, wheat, eggs, cod fish and cow's milk. The team found by aged three, seven of the children in the breastmilk only group had coeliac disease compared to none in the group given wheat. Introducing babies to gluten-rich foods such as Weetabix from four months of age could prevent them from developing wheat allergies as they get older, study finds. For the EAT study, the babies who were given wheat were fed 0.14 ounces of wheat protein every week from four months of age in the form of two Weetabix.

Source: Daily Mail September 28, 2020 16:47 UTC