Dr. Hugh Sampson: “About-Face on Preventing Peanut Allergies”
A diet that includes peanuts in the first year of life may greatly reduce the chance of developing peanut allergies in children at risk for getting them, according to a highly anticipated new study. The findings appear to be the most definitive evidence yet to discount the medical community’s longtime recommendation that parents avoid giving peanut products to young children. Rebecca Gruchalla, MD, and Hugh Sampson, MD, director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, wrote an editorial in the NEJM to accompany the new research, saying they believe the “landmark” study warrants new guidelines for when to introduce peanuts into children’s diets. Learn more
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Welcomes New Chief of Clinical Immunology
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