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In Infants with Egg or Milk Allergy, Can Future Peanut Allergy Be Predicted? – 3
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Unexpected findings from a recent study suggest that infants with milk and or egg allergy are at risk for developing peanut allergy. Dr. Marshall Plaut with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says more than a quarter of infants studies were at risk.
Plaut: Even though we anticipated that there would be kids who already had allergic antibodies to peanut, we were very surprised about the proportion of kids who were very allergic to peanut.
Narrator: Researchers recommend that high risk infants, those allergic to milk and or egg, should be tested for peanut allergy and seen by their physician before given peanuts. For more about infant allergies, visit www.niaid.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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