Oh come on, don't flame her for giving peanut butter to the kids before they go to kindergarten! There's enough conflicting evidence out there on peanut allergies and when peanut butter should be introduced that it's a silly debate in the first place. Years and years ago when peanut butter was introduced MUCH earlier, there were WAY fewer allergies. YES there were a lot of other factors as well that could have been at work. But the facts don't lie...the later we wait to introduce peanuts/peanut butter, the more allergies to it we keep seeing.

Recommendations on when the "highly allergenic foods" should be introduced have changed recently anyway--and peanut butter was included. The AAP itself changed the recommendation and admitted that there is NO conclusive evidence that delaying exposure to peanut butter, shellfish, and eggs beyond 12 months does ANYTHING to prevent allergies, and may in fact be causing more of them. Instead, the recommend discussing it with a pediatrician and exercising common sense--if a child has a family history or self-history of severe food allergies, use more caution when introducing something like PB.

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