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a landmark trial in 2015 found that feeding peanuts to babies could cut their chances of developing an allergy by over 80 percent. In 2017, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases formally recommended the early-introduction approach and issued national guidelines.
The new study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that food allergy rates in children under 3 fell after those guidelines were put into place — dropping to 0.93 percent between 2017 and 2020, from 1.46 percent between 2012 and 2015. That’s a 36 percent reduction in all food allergies, driven largely by a 43 percent drop in peanut allergies.
Can’t argue with those results. Thank God.
My shrink told me we didn’t even need to feed my son peanut butter, but that one or two small applications of PB to the chest during infancy would reduce the risk of allergy by a massive factor. His mom thought it sounded weird as fuck, but she asked his pediatrician, and then did it. He ain’t allergic to peanuts.
So does that mean that this was really a Millenial problem? Cuz I don’t think that you heard about this before the early 2000s, maybe the late 90s.
As a late millenial, my guess for the cause of high prevalence of peanut allergy among younger people was because of being less exposed to dirt and being subjected to over-cleanliness when we were growing up. Iirc, the news and medical community overemphasised cleanliness in the 1990s. So, parents overdid it and the children’s immune system has become less attuned and familiar to different foreign objects in the body. The immune system then overreacts to non-threatening objects in the body resulting in allergy.
Mid to late 90s was when it started becoming a talked about threat, but 2000s was when we reached “oh my god even a molecule on the hem of someone’s clothing is enough to kill 10 people” shit. If you trace backwards that means late Boomers and Gen Xers started, I think, Ziplock parenting a lot - less real play in the dirt, more sit on the couch and eat Dunkaroos.
Basically the last generation that had “be home when the streetlights come on” was the last generation to have the more resilient immune systems, and the two things are probably fairly related.
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How? Where did they go? What caused it to spike in the first place?
Evidence shows that early exposure to potential allergies reduces the likelihood of getting that allergy. Since we’ve know this doctors have recommended early exposure to allergens, instead of avoiding them. Now that we no longer avoid peanuts in adolescence, the allergy is receding.
adolescence
I assume you meant infancy?
The article is paywalled but the gist is in the tagline: people kept peanuts but babies for fear of allergies but lack of exposure leads to allergies.
I’ve been casually following this for awhile so here’s some further insight: peanut allergies were on the rise worldwide except in one place…Israel.
Have you ever seen those “puffs” baby snacks? They’re like Cheeto Puffs but made for babies. Easier to eat with a weaker flavor. They’re popular across the world but there’s a brand with a peanut variety that sells particularly well in Israeli.
After realizing the connection, they started studying it. I am assuming this article is the conclusion of that study.
Is this because people who have peanut allergies are now dead?
It is because we are exposing infants to allergens which in turn trains their immune systems to not have the reaction to them. So any reaction other than sever from early, trace, exposure will allow for the child to grow up without the allergic reactions to them, and other allergens, not just peanuts.
or because of more awarness and better food safety standards.
But maybe… If we just covered our eyes for one year we’d be done with nut allergies forever. Of course not, but maybe…
Are you Louis C.K?
I have no idea but I think it’s just because of the difference in the way modern mothers think compared to mothers in the 90s and stuff. Modern mothers do not just blindly take medicine and stuff when they are pregnant. Sometimes medicines can have weird effects on the immune system and allergies can be developed when the immune system associates harmless things with disease. This is a wild guess, but I bet many of these people had peanut allergies because their mothers were taking antihistamines or something in the 90s while they were pregnant. It used to be considered safe and often recommended for mother’s to take a wide variety of medicine, but our understanding of medicine has advanced quite a bit since then, and we now understand the body as a far more dynamic and self balancing thing, and we weigh the risks of using drugs to be high. In modern times doctors will shy away from prescribing drugs to pregnant mothers unless there is something dangerous or particularly needed.
Please do not spread medical misinformation.
I have no idea
You should have stopped here.
Go bother someone else please
Hello! Welcome to posting on a public forum where anyone is allowed to reply to you.
No the above poster is right. Your wild guess is a wild guess and not based on the science which you could have googled.
They showed us in realtime where modern people like do their own research!
It’s extra stinky because it was freshly pulled out of their ass.
You should know what the concept of science is before you go using the word like your sacrificial cow. Google is one of the most anti scientific institutions on earth. You should never believe anything you read from Google.
It’s literally in the sub headline of the linked article
Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanut products. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.
I have no idea where you came up with what you posted.
Google can directly lead you to the original sources and studies that have made these conclusions, dumb-dumb. They’re not saying to blindly listen to the AI overview, they’re saying to Google it and find the scientific studies that are publicly accessible instead of making wild guesses.
Especially if you click on links that arent just the first 2 pages of sponsored content.
Cory Doctorow, who knows a thing or 2 about this, used kagi as his search engine(or did for a while) and says it uses google without a bunch of garbage results(though it also doesn’t exclusively use google for it’s results)
