Eating peanuts during pregnancy could be linked to children's allergies


	Eating peanuts during pregnancy could be linked to children's allergies

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5-6-2007 7:18 PM

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Findings not conclusive enough to change advice to women, experts say

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d7061a95-00a9-499c-ae55-dbe3b7502815/A29487D5-28A2-4D3A-878B-89921FBCEDAC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html" href="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cbc.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html"><P>A pediatrician in Montreal is suggesting that pregnant and nursing mothers avoid peanuts so their children don't develop peanut allergies, but the preliminary findings are not conclusive enough to change the advice women are given, other medical experts say.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html"><P>The study by pediatric allergist Dr. Anne Desroches of Sainte-Justine Hospital involved 403 toddlers, about half of whom were allergic to peanuts. Their mothers filled in detailed questionnaires about breastfeeding, their diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding, exposure to peanuts and family history.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html"><P>"The principal risk factor that we observed was not breastfeeding," Desroches said. "The risk factor was consumption of peanuts by the mother during pregnancy and the breastfeeding period."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/04/peanut-allergy.html"><P>Consumption of any amount of peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding seemed to be a significant risk factor for the development of peanut allergy in infancy, the study suggested.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A29487D5-28A2-4D3A-878B-89921FBCEDAC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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