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Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by lotsofpulp »

s1k3 wrote: post #26
kspacewalk2 wrote: post #12

>Instead, eating peanut while the immune system is still developing - and learning to recognise friend from foe - can reduce allergic reactions, experts say. >Other studies have suggested introducing other foods linked to allergies - such as egg, milk and wheat - early also reduced allergy. I admit I haven't looked at studies, but this made such intuitive sense to us that we've been first giving both our sons very sm…

We did the same. My wife was nervous but I’m like, it’s common sense. We did hold off on honey until they were one due to the botulism risk tho.

In certain cultures of India, it is tradition to give a baby a drop of honey as soon as they are born.

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by anhner »

sam36 wrote: post #32
numbers_guy wrote: post #14

Where does peanut allergy come from anyway? The first time I heard about it was on American TV sitcoms. Two decades later we have EPIPENs in our schools too, but in my childhood food allergies were never discussed at all. Not a single mention at all.

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If we're going down the route of speculative correlation, we might as well say it's the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, since that also steadily increased in the last years...

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by myko »

skrbjc wrote: post #66
bigbillheck wrote: post #52

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How many kids do you think there are in schools who aren't eating solid foods yet?

Many many people put their kids into daycare at 3 months of age since that’s all they get for maternity leave.

In the US 25% of mothers are back at work within 2 weeks of childbirth (https://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9188343/maternity-leave-united...). FMLA requires jobs to let mothers take time but does not require they be paid, and most folks are living paycheck to paycheck and need the money.

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by LesZedCB »

weberer wrote: post #73
mirsadm wrote: post #17

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Yeah we gave our 6 month old peanut butter and ended up in hospital. This happened during the Covid lockdowns so it was quite scary. The recommendation here is to give them the food and see if they are allergic. I'm not sure I would follow that guideline again.

Nowadays your doctor can just take a small blood sample and run a battery of allergy tests on that.

blood tests aren't very reliable like that. i have been with my partner to the immunologist many times over the years and observed skin prick tests and seen blood test results and watched her get epipen'd after a bad prick test.

she will go into anaphylaxis if you wear a jacket you brought to somebody's house who has a cat.

her blood work says the IgE count is fairly low.

they can indicate more testing should be done, but they aren't perfect. neither are skin prick tests. i can dig up some of her reddit comments about it if you're interested.

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by anhner »

SeanLuke wrote: post #35
sam36 wrote: post #32

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This is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.

There's gonna be no extraordinary evidence FOR that claim, only AGAINST it, since billions of people have been vaccinated all around the world yet allergies have only gone up in a few countries.

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Post by anhner »

hammock wrote: post #80
anhner wrote: post #79

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There's probably a good reason why it's ingored...

The science is definitely mixed[1]. The proposed mechanism of action is logically sound, though, and probably worth exploring more than it is [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845772/

It's possible the mechanism is plausible, but then how do we explain the fact that in most developed countries vaccination rates have gone up, yet allergy rates have gone up only in a few? Surely there must be some other factor causing it.

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Post by jraines »

xyzzyz wrote: post #69
ilickpoolalgae wrote: post #64

My kid is allergic to peanuts (we did a peanut butter test at about 5 months and had to rush him to the ER as his face started swelling up). Food allergies are a really interesting subject because it doesn't seem entirely reliant on genetics. For example East Asians have an extremely low rate of peanut allergies, but East Asians who grow up in western countries tend to have an equal or higher rate of peanut allergies…

Very interesting. While the theory that most peanut allergy is caused by no exposure in infancy is well supported by the evidence, seems like it’s definitely not the entire story, given your experience — after all, you could hardly have a lot of exposure in children to peanuts earlier than 5 months! I don’t think we were feeding our kids solid foods at 5 months yet at all, so definitely they had no peanut exposure ye…

Same experience. My wife ate extra peanut butter while pregnant and nursing (offtopic but maybe relevant), and we tried giving my daughter the tiniest dab of peanut butter very early, and the reaction was nuts. We watched with rising panic as the inflammation started at her mouth, traced down throat and chest to stomach, and spread, in what seemed like real time.

She is 3 now has to have an epipen ready to go. 2nd girl: no issues at all - same house, basic maternal diet, vaccine schedule, etc

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by hammock »

jonhohle wrote: post #28
numbers_guy wrote: post #14

Where does peanut allergy come from anyway? The first time I heard about it was on American TV sitcoms. Two decades later we have EPIPENs in our schools too, but in my childhood food allergies were never discussed at all. Not a single mention at all.

In my late 30s I developed a legume allergy (including peanuts). Not knowing much about child peanut allergies (we gave all of our kids peanut butter from an early age), I’ve had to adjust my own life to avoiding peanuts, soy, and so many delicious beans. My symptoms are just gastro related, so it’s probably not the same as childhood peanut allergies, though.

Do you get a flu shot every year?

Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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Post by PebblesRox »

hgsgm wrote: post #77
cmurf wrote: post #45

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As popular as it is, I wonder if there's effectively microdosing happening from baby's 1st week, even before they eat it themselves?

You mean from exposure to other kids?

My guess is through breast milk - which I was wondering about with the study as well; does it make a difference for breastfed babies whether their moms eat a lot of peanuts?

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Post by Red_Leaves_Flyy »

dragonwriter wrote: post #47
mertd wrote: post #33

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Isn't the mortality because of SIDS? It has not much to do with germ transmission.

> Isn’t the mortality because of SIDS? SIDS isn’t a cause, SIDS is a name for when no cause is known.

Is also a concession to the parents whose kid probably just died of suffocation. Much like the historical trend of not reporting overdose deaths.
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