Peanut affects around 2% of children in developed countries and is the leading cause of
food-related anaphylactic deaths in the United States and United Kingdom. Peanut allergy is
rarely outgrown and, although peanut desensitization has been shown to increase the
threshold of reactivity to peanut, the evidence for oral tolerance induction remains elusive.
The Learning Early About Peanut (LEAP) study showed that high-dose regular peanut
consumption from 4 to 11 months of age up until 5 years of age was highly effective in …