“We are very careful to read the ingredients on everything that we buy,” says Nicholl, whose 9-year-old son, Luke, has a serious peanut allergy. Some 2.5 million Canadians now report having at least one food allergy. “When we went to school I don’t remember knowing anyone with a peanut allergy,” she says. “Now I have a (16-year-old) son with a peanut allergy and two of his best friends have a peanut allergy.”So why is that? That so-called LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut Allergy) paper suggested that frequent peanut-product feedings from infancy through age 5 led to an 81-per-cent drop in allergy development.

Source: thestar September 05, 2017 09:56 UTC