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After years of telling pregnant women to avoid eating peanuts, experts are now changing their mind.

In Britain, the surge in childhood nut allergies may correspond to the years when pregnant women avoided peanuts.

In other countries where children are weaned on peanuts, childhood nut allergies are practically non-existent.

Ministers have admitted that their guidelines - which state that babies may be at higher risk of developing a nut allergy if the mother or father have a history of asthma, eczema or hay fever - may be ‘entirely wrong and counter-productive.’

Britain has witnessed a surge in childhood allergies in the last decade, with up to 8% of youngsters experiencing a reaction before they go to school.

Source: Avoiding Nuts In Pregnancy ‘Causes Allergies’ (Sky News)