I'm sorry but I think that the whole peanut thing is rubbish.... I ate peanuts with Tia and both my parents have asthma and I had childhood asthma, I now get really bad rhinitis and hay fever... I also had eczema... My daughter has come out of it with no allergies at all... And she is extremely healthy. She had really bad glue ear when we lived in the UK, but the minute she had the grommets fitted, and we moved to Spain, it all cleared up.
I think the increase in asthma and allergies with children in the UK is down to poor diet and ultra clean surroundings...
Asthma and allergies are really rare here and most kids have a very strict Mediterranean diet... it's too expensive to buy fast/frozen foods, its cheaper to buy fresh... Plus in schools, the kids get one three course meal a day that consists of soup/salad, a meat/fish with pasta/veg and dessert thats either yogurt or fruit only.. Once a month they might get a burger and chips with ice cream... but thats only once a month or last day of term. But there are no choices, its either that or go hungry... there are no packed lunches either, if you don't want your kid eating school meals, you have to collect them and take them home.
If your child is going to have allergies, they are likely to come even if you do avoid peanuts...I just can't believe that the reason the UK has such high levels of asthma and allergies is purely down to the fact that mothers must be munching their way through oceans of peanuts... It has to be something else, because other countries don't tell you to avoid peanuts yet have lower rates of asthma and allergies.
I'd say though if there's things to argue either way, then probably neither source knows what they're on about.
