New peanut guidelines for babies (USA)

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Did you guys see this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/well/eat/feed-your-kids-peanuts-early-and-often-new-guidelines-urge.html?_r=0

Very interesting! The  official advice in the USA is now to introduce peanuts early, especially to babies prone to nut allergies (with a doctor's guidance, I assume), because early exposure might prevent allergies from ever developing. That's definitely more in line with the official advice here in the Netherlands, which is to introduce finely ground nuts from 6-8 months.

I eat a lot of peanut butter, so I assume baby has been exposed via breastmilk from birth anyway. He likes peanut butter toast and peanut sauces, which we started offering him around 8 months...and in a total mama-fail moment, chomped up a whole chocolate covered almond he found on the floor recently. I ran to get it out of his mouth but he'd chewed it up pretty good. Anyway, all this to say we haven't had any issues with the introduction of nuts to his diet yet, thankfully.


Have your LOs had any peanuts or other nuts yet? When do you plan to/did you introduce them?

smn14

I read a very similar article (UK) yesterday, saying that babies with asthma or eczema should have nuts introduced from 4-6 months abd all babies should try them in their first year (ground or in peanut butter of course). I must admit I've been a bit lax giving peanut butter! A New Year'a resolution perhaps! 

jarob747

I introduced nuts around 8-9 months. He loves apples and walnuts puree as well as peanut butter and bananas

kinnonam

I thought that was interesting when I saw it we have been giving our LO slivers of pb&j sandwiches once he was around 6months. Neither of us have any nut allergies in our family's and had spoken to the pediatrician about it so we went for it. He loves it on banana or apples.