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Why peanut reactions have become ‘almost epidemic’ — and what to do about food allergies

Renae

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Among children, allergies to peanuts and other types of food continues to climb, but experts say there is some progress in controlling or preventing life-threatening reactions.A food allergy, defined as a reaction that occurs when the immune system attacks harmless proteins, is an ailment that drugmakers are working to treat. One method involves treatments that introduce small amounts of peanuts to allergy sufferers, which gradually increases the amount to build tolerance.


The exploding segment of the population suffering from certain food ailments is skyrocketing, and experts are stumped on the reasons why. A study from the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at New York’s Mount Sinai hospital found that from 1997 to 2008, peanut allergies tripled from 1-in-250 children to 1-in-70.
“It really is almost an epidemic,” Dr. Scott Sicherer, the institute’s director, told CNBC’s “On the Money. ”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/why-peanut-food-allergies-have-become-almost-epidemic.html
I know when my kids were born, we slowly introduced them to a range of foods by 6 months old. I had a friend call me insane and accuse me of child abuse for giving my son some peanut butter. ALL of her kids, were SAFE because she wasn't going to risk it! Well of her 4 kids, 2 had Peanut Allergies.

Gee... I wonder why?
 
Renae said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/why-peanut-food-allergies-have-become-almost-epidemic.html
I know when my kids were born, we slowly introduced them to a range of foods by 6 months old. I had a friend call me insane and accuse me of child abuse for giving my son some peanut butter. ALL of her kids, were SAFE because she wasn't going to risk it! Well of her 4 kids, 2 had Peanut Allergies.

Gee... I wonder why?
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It is amazing that any of us from the 50's and 60's survived childhood!
No car seats, no bike helmets, in many cases no seat belts, ect.
At home you ate what you were served, at school you ate what the Nuns told you to!
If you were visiting someone, you ate what they served, and said it was good, even if it was not.
 
longview said:
It is amazing that any of us from the 50's and 60's survived childhood!
No car seats, no bike helmets, in many cases no seat belts, ect.
At home you ate what you were served, at school you ate what the Nuns told you to!
If you were visiting someone, you ate what they served, and said it was good, even if it was not.
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To be fair, child death rates were higher back then. But for those of us who survived we sure have some fun, adventurous memories. I remember taking naps on road trips on the rear window dash board staring up at the sky. It is crazy to think about now.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
To be fair, child death rates were higher back then. But for those of us who survived we sure have some fun, adventurous memories. I remember taking naps on road trips on the rear window dash board staring up at the sky. It is crazy to think about now.
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I wonder if advances in medicine had more to do with declining childhood death rates than all of this safety equipment.
Of course all those antibiotics, may have something to do with some of the other issues.
 
When my daughter was about three years old she was eating a peanut butter sammich and got some in her eye which promptly swelled up. She had some skin patch testing which showed a mild reaction so we stopped giving her peanut butter for years until she accidentally got some at a baby sitter's house. Had no reaction and soon afterward she created "peanut butter and jelly salad"--i.e. no bread, just a bowl of the two mixed together--and ate it regularly. She's 34 now and has multiple food allergies but not to peanuts. There's a reason that the field of allergy is called "atopic" disease. The Greek word "atopia" means uncommon or unusual, as in odd. It's really hard to diagnose precisely and treatment if often complicated.
 
longview said:
It is amazing that any of us from the 50's and 60's survived childhood!
No car seats, no bike helmets, in many cases no seat belts, ect.
At home you ate what you were served, at school you ate what the Nuns told you to!
If you were visiting someone, you ate what they served, and said it was good, even if it was not.
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Ah the good ole days of natural selection. :2razz:
 
Skeptic Bob said:
To be fair, child death rates were higher back then. But for those of us who survived we sure have some fun, adventurous memories. I remember taking naps on road trips on the rear window dash board staring up at the sky. It is crazy to think about now.
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I always felt deprived. I so wanted to ride in one of the station-wagons that had the rear seat facing the scene of the accident!


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Giving your kid peanut butter didn't cure him of an allergy and her kids having an allergy had nothing to do with exposure.

How stupid.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
To be fair, child death rates were higher back then. But for those of us who survived we sure have some fun, adventurous memories. I remember taking naps on road trips on the rear window dash board staring up at the sky. It is crazy to think about now.
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I used to stand on the hump between my parents and sleep on the back seat like a couch. I'm glad that Dad is a good driver.
 
Renae said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/why-peanut-food-allergies-have-become-almost-epidemic.html
I know when my kids were born, we slowly introduced them to a range of foods by 6 months old. I had a friend call me insane and accuse me of child abuse for giving my son some peanut butter. ALL of her kids, were SAFE because she wasn't going to risk it! Well of her 4 kids, 2 had Peanut Allergies.

Gee... I wonder why?
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Experts are stumped as to the reason why, eh?
Renae, you and I lock horns on just about everything, but on this one I suspect you and I are going to be sympatico.

The cause of these ridiculous food allergies is simple, it is the super sanitary super clean super attentive super paranoid super Mom who hovers around cleaning, wiping, sanitizing and sterilizing every square inch of every single surface a child touches from newborn infancy up till around ten years old, and maybe beyond.

An infant's immune system must be TAUGHT, trained, challenged, stressed and disciplined and the way to do that is to gradually expose infants to a wider and wider range of external bacterial and microbial stimuli. That doesn't mean that you drop a six week old into a peanut filled rubber ball pit with an Ebola infected rubber ducky, but it does mean that you must allow the natural world and its environment to connect with your baby.

Kids NEED to get dirty, and to get exposed to soil and foodstuffs of all kinds in an organized and deliberate manner.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Experts are stumped as to the reason why, eh?
Renae, you and I lock horns on just about everything, but on this one I suspect you and I are going to be sympatico.

The cause of these ridiculous food allergies is simple, it is the super sanitary super clean super attentive super paranoid super Mom who hovers around cleaning, wiping, sanitizing and sterilizing every square inch of every single surface a child touches from newborn infancy up till around ten years old, and maybe beyond.

An infant's immune system must be TAUGHT, trained, challenged, stressed and disciplined and the way to do that is to gradually expose infants to a wider and wider range of external bacterial and microbial stimuli. That doesn't mean that you drop a six week old into a peanut filled rubber ball pit with an Ebola infected rubber ducky, but it does mean that you must allow the natural world and its environment to connect with your baby.

Kids NEED to get dirty, and to get exposed to soil and foodstuffs of all kinds in an organized and deliberate manner.
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Bingo. Kids are tough, and the 24 hour news cycle of "BEWARE THIS PARENT LET THEIR KID DO THIS NORMAL THING AND NOW THEY ARE DEAD YOU COULD BE NEXT!!!" Stories... just boggle the noggin. Yes, **** can happen, but use some common sense!
 
longview said:
I wonder if advances in medicine had more to do with declining childhood death rates than all of this safety equipment.
Of course all those antibiotics, may have something to do with some of the other issues.
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That is certainly a factor, but mandatory seatbelt laws have had a demonstrable improvement on traffic fatalities, which of course includes children. But I doubt that knowing where your kids are every second of the day with gps accuracy has had a significant affect. Maybe less cuts and scrapes.
 
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