Never heard about peanut allergy here in India, looks like a first world problem.
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Re: Two new peanut allergy treatments are on the verge of approval
#22Money quotes:
> Big Pharma was unmoved, believing it would be impossible to patent a medicine that was essentially a ground-up peanut.
> [One of the companies working on the issue] has ties to the food industry, which has a vested interest in finding treatments for allergies.
Make of this what you will.
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#23And the best prevention is giving small kids peanut based foods But since some genius thought the best course of action was not exposing kids to it, we have the present situation (especially in the US)
According to my pediatrician, research shows that exposing children to peanuts earlier decreases the likelihood of a child developing a peanut allergy.
Ask an allergist/pediatrcian what they would do with their children. The answer most likely would be to "challenge" nut allergies with low doses if symptoms occur and introduce a variety of foods early on as appropriate.
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#24Never heard about peanut allergy here in India, looks like a first world problem.
India does have a huge problem with lots of people dying from poor food (and other) sanitation practices, though. When your house is burning down you don't notice a light left on in the attic.
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#25Last year I learned that 20% of adults who were diagnosed with a peanut allergy outgrow it after childhood. It is worth getting tested again if you grew up with a peanut allergy. I had signed up for a trial of one of these drugs. Having grown up in the 80s with a severe peanut allergy that required the use of the epipen more than a few times I was keen for anything that could help, even just something that would less…
My father outgrew his peanut allergy when he was 15 and said I would too, but sadly I didn't. I still carry an EpiPen around and flat out avoid going to Thai places.
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#26I never knew that peanut oil was used as a vaccine adjuvant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2130368/pdf/jhy...
Bingo.
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#27Last year I learned that 20% of adults who were diagnosed with a peanut allergy outgrow it after childhood. It is worth getting tested again if you grew up with a peanut allergy. I had signed up for a trial of one of these drugs. Having grown up in the 80s with a severe peanut allergy that required the use of the epipen more than a few times I was keen for anything that could help, even just something that would less…
More anecdata; a friends father never had a peanut allergy, then almost died. Friend said peanuts weren't part of his fathers diet for years, his father decided to have a pbnj, bam, almost died. I had never heard of adult onset peanut allergy before.
My son has a peanut allergy, I can only hope he outgrows it as well.
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#28And the best prevention is giving small kids peanut based foods But since some genius thought the best course of action was not exposing kids to it, we have the present situation (especially in the US)
According to my pediatrician, research shows that exposing children to peanuts earlier decreases the likelihood of a child developing a peanut allergy.
I gave my son a bite of the peanut butter cookie I was eating, when he was six months old, nearly killed him. So this "expose them early and it's not a problem" maybe true part of the time for some allergens, but certainly not all the time for all allergens.
Edit: Down voters care to comment?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to my pediatrician, research shows that exposing children to peanuts earlier decreases the likelihood of a child developing a peanut allergy.
I gave my son a bite of the peanut butter cookie I was eating, when he was six months old, nearly killed him. So this "expose them early and it's not a problem" maybe true part of the time for some allergens, but certainly not all the time for all allergens. Edit: Down voters care to comment?
Peanuts are one of the specific allergens for what was actually said upthread (early exposure is the best way of reducing the likelihood of developing an allergy) has been shown to be true; the explosion in peanut allergies in the US is a direct result of bad recommendation to generally avoid early exposure which has now been lifted and replaced with different guidance.
That doesn't mean, however, that there is no risk of developing an allergy even with early exposure.
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#30And the best prevention is giving small kids peanut based foods But since some genius thought the best course of action was not exposing kids to it, we have the present situation (especially in the US)
According to my pediatrician, research shows that exposing children to peanuts earlier decreases the likelihood of a child developing a peanut allergy.
Maybe, maybe not. It's just unclear.
My wife ate a ton of peanut butter during her pregnancy. One would think it would have protected our son, but it didn't. He's now eight and the peanut allergy is getting worse.