- https://web.archive.org/web/20251020152903/https://www.nytim...
by ErikCorry
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- Eating peanuts reduces allergies, but getting peanuts on your skin increases allergies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167491...
Or maybe in your lungs.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8429226/#R7
by aerostable_slug
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- Business idea: Allergen Aerator
Generate a miasma of benign pestilence in your child's crib, mimicking the protective inoculations provided by early exposure to peanuts and other potential allergens, "farm" air, and the like. It could be packaged with Flonase for sneezing parents and an 'essential oils' scent dispenser to cover the barnyard smell.
Use AI to tailor the precise blend of aerosolized rodent feces and tree nut dust to optimize your child's immune system, and et voila: funding!
- My son has a peanut allergy. He was deemed very severe. He started treatment daily peanut doses. Starting at 5 mg. He is now eating 4 peanuts a day and counting. Zero issues with exposure now. If you have a kid with a peanut allergy find an allergist who will desensitize them.see https://www.palforzia.com/
by atleastoptimal
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- Common sense thinking wins again. The entire genesis of an allergy is your body treats a benign particle as a pathogen due to not recognizing it. The #1 way to precipitate this is to keep the body from ever encountering this particle until well beyond its initial phases of immune development.
Are there other modern conditions born from the same "zero-tolerance prevention leads to unintended consequences due to failing to provide the body a robust means to develop"?
- Have there been any studies on crop-swapping changes such as legumes <--> cotton? Only asking as there were some theories about excess herbicides and pesticides from cotton leeching into the ground and getting absorbed in high amounts by legumes from seasonal crop-swaps.
by evereverever
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- The kids I see that have peanut allergies lived in bubbles. It seems like it is self-inflicted but I have no scientific evidence.
- Peanut allergies is one of those things I have only seen in American pop culture and media. Like anxious kids breathing in a brown paper bag.
I know people have peanut allergies all over the world. But the significance of the allergy is definitely different in the US than most other places imo.
- I remember the misdiagnosis studies back in the day also.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11859-peanut-allergy-...
https://www.thelocal.se/20100224/25174
- I attribute to my robust immune system to the amount of dirt I ate as a child, I was a digger in the school yard, and I liked playing in mud - while being a thumb sucker well into elementary school.
- Experts discover peanut allergies are mostly caused by experts.
- Science works
by kazinator
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by legitster
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- One of my conspiracy theories that I loosely hold is that the majority of the fears that we have been sold on allergies was a direct result of marketing efforts by the inventors of the Epipen.
Anaphylactic shock is extremely rare. And even in cases of anaphylactic shock, it's only fatal in an even rarer number of cases (which makes sense, anaphylactic shocks is a biological reaction of your body to save itself, not kill itself).
We really don't know how many lives emergency epinephrine has saved, but it may have only been necessary in less than 1 out of 50 cases. However, it benefitted the manufacturer to overemphasize the prevalence of dangerous food allergies and the risks of shock and encourage doctors to prescribe them in increasingly more "just in case" cases".
It's in this world that parents and doctors alike became insanely cautious and paranoid about introducing allergens. Conveniently, we saw the rise of simpler, more highly processed baby and childrens' foods at the same time.
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