Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo
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And the guidance back then was avoid the allergenic foods until age three.
And so after those recommendations back then, we saw this huge prevalence of peanut allergy.
And we're like, what is going on here?
And then there was a game-changing study in 2015 that was actually about peanut allergy and high-risk patients and babies.
And they found that by introducing peanut between four to six months of age, but definitely before one year of age,
it actually decreased the incidence of peanut allergy in these high-risk kids.
So after then, so now for a decade, we've been telling parents and, you know, advising our pediatrician colleagues, early introduction of allergenic foods, early introduction of allergenic foods.
Thank you so much for having me, Regina.