Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology, left and Hugh A. Sampson, MD, Director of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital, served on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-sponsored panel that developed new guidelines on preventing peanut allergies in young children, along with Hugh A. Sampson, MD, Director of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He explains the new guidelines.
“It is important for parents to speak to their pediatrician or an allergist to find out if the new recommendations for preventing peanut allergy apply to their child. The hope is that these guidelines will reduce a major health burden by helping to prevent peanut allergies altogether. And if your child already has peanut allergy, be sure to talk to your doctor about the best ways to manage it,” he writes in the Huffington Post.