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 peanut a day keep the deadly allergies away?

A study released overnight.

It 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 incredibly encouraging, right? You found that peanut allergy

has plummeted, it seems. That's a word that's been used. The reason I'm here talking to you today,

right? The reason that I've been speaking with reporters for the last 48 hours is I want to get the word out because I want parents and pediatricians to know that we're starting to see indications that things are moving in the right direction.

For much of his career, David's been dealing with kids who are sick and maybe getting sicker.

They might start out with a skin rash.

That can blossom into a food allergy.

Eventually, they may have trouble breathing.

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