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With Dr Belinda Griffiths, GP at The Fleet Street Clinic (fleetstreetclinic.com)

Allergy worries

Q I’ve got a really bad peanut allergy, and I’m pregnant with my first child. Will I pass it onto my baby? Megan, Basingstoke

A Food allergies can be hereditary – that is, parents can pass the likelihood of developing a food allergy to their children through genes that code for inherited traits.

But this doesn’t mean that an allergy to a particular food will definitely be passed down,

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