A new study suggests that giving infants peanuts might reduce their rate of peanut allergy.

This is important because peanut allergy is a difficult problem to manage.

The problem, though, is that news organizations are implying that we've found a cure for the high rate of peanut allergy by giving all infants peanuts.  But the study was performed only on infants known to be at high risk, not all healthy infants.

Click here to read an AAP statement on our blog.

     -- Dr. Epstein