Mothers Told To Eat Peanuts In Pregnancy After Years Of Warnings To Avoid Them

Expectant mothers should eat peanuts during pregnancy so their child is less susceptible to allergies. The report released by the government suggests that Britain’s allergy epidemic is being fuelled by Government advice to not eat peanuts during pregnancy and avoid giving them to young children.

The dramatic findings follow a series of studies which round that allergy rates are low, or non-existent, in countries where babies are weaned on peanuts. In a stark contrast, Britain has witnessed a surge in childhood allergies in the last decade with up to 8% of young children experiencing a reaction before they go to school.

It is expected that the House Of Lords’ science and technology committee is to call on the Department of Health to change its official advice.

Ministers have admitted that their guidelines may be ‘entirely wrong and counter-productive.’

The advice given to mothers is, ‘If your baby is in this higher-risk group, you may wish to avoid eating peanuts and peanut products when you’re pregnant and breast-feeding.’

Lord May of Oxford, the crossbench peer has said “It is quite striking that the increase in peanut allergies is rather in step with the increasing Government advice not to expose tiny children to them.”

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