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Eggs and Peanuts in Pregnancy: Why More Didn’t Reduce Infant Allergy Risk
Can eating more eggs and peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding reduce a baby’s risk of developing food allergy?
In this episode of Hope & Histamine: The Paediatric Allergy Podcast, we examine the PrEggNut trial, a large randomised study involving more than 2,100 pregnant women whose babies had a strong family history of allergic disease. Researchers compared a maternal diet rich in eggs and peanuts with a standard-intake diet from pregnancy until four months after birth.
Despite greater maternal exposure, the high-intake diet did not significantly reduce egg or peanut allergy in infants…
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