No kidding! Almost self evident!
"Peanut allergies have declined sharply among children since pediatric guidelines issued in 2017 encouraged parents to introduce infants to peanuts rather than avoid them, per a study published in Pediatrics, which found the rate of peanut allergies among children under 3 plunged from 1.46% in 2012–2015 to 0.93% in 2017–2020."
"In this issue of Pediatrics, Gabryszewski et al provide evidence that efforts to prevent peanut allergy at the population level may be beginning to take hold in the United States. Their analysis, based on electronic health record (EHR) data in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Collaborative Electronic Reporting database, demonstrates a decline in the incidence of peanut allergy among children born after the publication of the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial findings in 2015.2 This is one of the first reports suggesting that clinical research findings and subsequent guidelines on early allergen introduction may be translating into meaningful real-world impact. ..."
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