Hey there, Karen Feeding listeners. You've likely noticed that today is a holiday. Happy Thanksgiving.

Like many of you, we're hanging out with the family and wearing our sweatpants. So today's episode

is actually coming to you from a fellow slate podcast, What Next? It's called Is the Peanut

Allergy Dead? Researchers have reversed a long-standing

guidance about giving kids peanuts. Parents are being told to give kids early exposure to the legume,

not avoid it, in order to prevent future allergies. And it's working. What next host, Mary Harris,

sits down with Dr. David Hill,

attending physician with the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Children's Hospital

of Philadelphia to unpack the possible end of the great pandemic of kid food allergies and why

it may be never needed to happen. We'll be back on Monday. Have a

great holiday.

So Dr. Hill, can I start off by asking you about your lab coat? Yeah, absolutely, which one? The white one or the tie-dye?

Dr. David Hill is a pediatrician, an allergist. The kind of physician who, yes, has a tie-died lab coat to amuse his young patients. And this was a very big week for him.

Could a peen out a day keep the deadly allergies away?

The study released overnight that shows a sharp drop in childhood peanut allergies.

David and some colleagues released an analysis showing 60,000 American children may have avoided peanut allergies.

With a simple intervention, peanuts themselves.

It was news that seemed to stun even a few newscasters.

I did a double take at this news because it seems like the opposite of some things we've been talking about here on the news. Fewer children are growing up with peanut allergies.

Like I said, it was a busy week for David.

Peanut allergy touches a lot of lives. We anticipated that this would be, that this would

garner attention. I would say that sort of the magnitude of the response has been

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