Open AccessPearls and pitfalls of implementing LEAP strategy for peanut: A case report
Author(s) -
Evelyn A. Wang,
Bruce J. Lanser,
Nathan Rabinovitch
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of food allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2689-0275
pISSN - 2689-0267
DOI - 10.2500/jfa.2022.4.220001
Subject(s) - peanut allergy , medicine , pediatrics , consumption (sociology) , allergy , intensive care medicine , food allergy , immunology , social science , sociology
Early introduction of peanut in infants at high risk has been widely adopted and implemented in pediatric outpatient clinics since 2017. It is often overlooked that almost 2% of infants went on to develop peanut allergy despite regular consumption in a previous study. Here we described a case of anaphylaxis to peanut in a 6-month-old infant after a negative skin-prick test result, supervised introduction in the clinic, and successful home consumption, which, to our knowledge, has only previously been described once in the literature.