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Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Effect of Avoidance on Peanut Allergy after Early Peanut Consumption 
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NotesCite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g1265 (Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy shows promise but questions remain | BMJ http://t.co/WPWcRA2KR9 More: http://t.co/H9MJgfjl4H)...
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A divulgative summary of the research: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/01/30/oral-immunotherapy-treatment-for-peanut-allergies-shows-promise-study-finds/
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CONCLUSIONS
Among children at high risk for allergy in whom peanuts had been introduced in the first year of life and continued until 5 years of age, a 12-month period of peanut avoidance was not associated with an increase in the prevalence of peanut allergy. Longer-term effects are not known.