Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH

#380: When you were at your 4 or 6 month well check with your baby, did your pediatrician mention the importance of introducing peanut early and often? In this episode pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta is talking about why only 13% of parents and caregivers are aware of the recommendations to introduce peanuts to babies early and often.

From her unique vantage point as one of the most prolific researchers and foremost experts in pediatric food allergy - plus the mom of a child with food allergy, Dr. Gupta will help us understand the research that supports early allergenic food introduction guidelines, why the messages aren’t getting shared by pediatricians to parents and a little history lesson into just how dramatically allergenic food introduction in infants has changed over the last 20 years.

Read Dr. Gupta’s book Food Without Fear.