Hi. It's being held out of the Evaline Hospital in London. Basically, they're looking to see which provides better protection against the development of peanut allergy (linked to eczema and/or egg allergy): early introduction & regular consumption of peanuts, or avoidance as per current UK recommendations. Seems there is evidence that is some asian countries where peanut-based foods are eaten early on a regular basis there is a lower incidence rate.
My ds has eczema so we're going in for our screening on Monday. As far as I'm aware, they'll do blood tests & skin prick tests to test for common food allergies (dairy, soya, egg & peanut I think). If he's not allergic to peanuts, he'll be randomised into one of two groups: avoid peanuts for 3-5 years, or eat peanut snacks 3xweek for 5 years starting asap. Perversely I'm really hoping he's put into the second group, as they'll arrange for his first taste of nuts to be done under hospital supervision just in case.
After that, we only have to go up to hospital once a year. We'll have weekly calls from a dietician until he's 1, then fortnightly calls until he's 2/3, to see how we're getting on with everything. They'll retest him for allergies once a year at 3,4 &5 yrs I think.
Was just wondering if anyone else was involved in this, and how they found it?
