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In 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a dramatic reversal in its approach to peanut-allergy prevention, recommending parents expose their infants as young as four months old to peanuts to prevent peanut allergy. In the five years
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A new study found that minorities are more likely to experience food allergies than white people. Additionally, allergies were less prevalent among higher socioeconomic groups.
Food allergy has not been on the radar of most racial and ethnic communities. But a new Northwestern Medicine study -; the first population-based food allergy study in the U.S. to explore racial and ethnic differences in all age groups -; shows why it should be.