Early exposure to peanuts 'can help prevent allergy'

'Compelling' results contradict earlier medical advice and may force doctors to issue new guidelines

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Babies who eat food containing peanuts are significantly less likely to develop an allergy to them, a groundbreaking new study has revealed.

The results are "so compelling and the problem of the increasing prevalence of peanut allergy so alarming that new guidelines should be forthcoming very soon", said the New England Journal of Medicine.

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