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Any nuts in pregnancy?

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bunnysgirl · 07/05/2008 19:21

Am tucking into pistachio nuts at moment are they banned along with the peanut or can you have any other nut?????

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GordontheGopher · 07/05/2008 19:22

I think current advice is to eat all kinds of nuts regardless of whether there are allergies in the family or not. Enjoy!

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posieflump · 07/05/2008 19:22

I think it is only peanuts and even then only if a close relative has a peanut allergy

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cosima · 07/05/2008 19:23

there is some confusion cos most recent studies show that AVOIDING peanuts causes the allergy, but the mws at my surgery had not caught up with that yet. I eat peanut butter all the time, did do throughout pregnancy , no allergy in my 3month lo, other nuts are fine

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GordontheGopher · 07/05/2008 19:25

Yep they reckon there are more children allergic to peanuts now because of women avoiding them in pregnancy.

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minster · 07/05/2008 19:41

I worked with an immunologist from China - where they eat masses of peanuts - peanut allergy is virtually unheard of there. He is convinced that it is avoiding potentially allergenic foodstuffs in pregnancy that leads to problems (I'm currently stuffing a peanut butter sandwich into my mouth).