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Can eating too much peanut butter while pregnant give your unborn child a peanut allergy?

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Unclear: There is some evidence that exposure to peanut butter in pregnancy can increase the fetal risk of an allergy, but the risk seems to be limited to those with a strong family history of this allergy.

Answered 7/18/2013

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