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New Guidelines Say Infants Should Be Given Foods Containing Peanuts Early And Often.

ABC World News Tonight (1/5, story 9, 1:10, Muir) reported on "eye-opening new advice" from the National Institutes of Health "about preventing those potentially life-threatening peanut allergies."

        The CBS Evening News (1/5, story 8, 2:15, Elliott) reported, "The National Institutes of Health reversed itself today on just how to prevent childhood peanut allergies." Experts there now recommend that "instead of keeping peanuts away from babies with high risk of allergy," parents should "feed them small amounts of peanut-based foods as infants."

        NBC Nightly News (1/5, story 8, 1:40, Holt) pointed out that the "new recommendations...seem to contradict everything we've been told."

        The New York Times (1/5, Rabin, Subscription Publication) reports that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases issued new national health guidelines "urging parents to give their children foods containing peanuts early and often, starting when they're infants, as a way to help avoid life-threatening peanut allergies." The guidelines, a "significant reversal from past advice," recommend "giving babies puréed food or finger food containing peanut powder or extract before they are 6 months old, and even earlier if a child is prone to allergies and [physicians] say it is safe to do so."

Benjamin Hidalgo-Matlock

Skin Care Physicians of Costa Rica

4000-1054

2208-8206

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