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Another unintended consequence could be increased exposure to potential allergens in babies, reducing allergy rates. "Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy

• hadlock 3y ago
  Yep, peanut allergies used to be 1 in 10,000, then the advice changed to "introduce peanuts after age 3" and allergies skyrocketed to nearly 1 in 100. The advice has since been reversed and they say to introduce trace amounts of allergens as early as children start solid foods (usually age 5-7 months, 6 months being most common). There are no children at our daycare with peanut allergies and in fact they get snacks with peanut butter on the regular. Seems to be working. Note to any future parents out there, Trader Joes sells an excellent "multi nut butter" which has all the various allergen heavy nuts and quasi-nuts out there, and they also sell "Bambas" which are like cheetos but they're made of peanut... puff stuff, and really hard to choke on since they just kind of dissolve in your mouth. Obviously, consult your doctor, but we've seen a huge reversal in kids allergies in the last 3-4 years as the suggested advice has done a 180 and parents are following it.