Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

bbc.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 382 posts

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

#91

Post by hammock »

anhner wrote: post #86
hammock wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How do we explain the fact that countries with the highest growth of ice cream sales, have the highest growth of sunburn cases as well?

Hard to take a huge macro view of only two factors as you are doing and draw any meaningful conclusion. Hence the need for deeper study

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

#94

Post by soperj »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #50
nerpderp82 wrote: post #2

> Food allergies are the result of our immune system mistaking something harmless for a severe threat. If you IDS has never seen X and X is unlike anything it has seen, it will probably flag it. > There had been long-standing advice to avoid foods that can trigger allergies during early childhood. At one point, families were once told to avoid peanut until their child was three years old. This advice was never based…

> This advice was never based on science. No, it was based on common sense. If X causes problems, not doing X is generally a good idea. It turns out that in this particular scenario, common sense was wrong. But allergies weren't understood by science, so all we had to go on was common sense.

> common sense was wrong

I don't think that's been proven conclusively.

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

#95

Post by bombcar »

gimmeThaBeet wrote: post #68
ladberg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.

I was seeing that, I was a bit surprised that it seemed like the actual branded product. My habit is to figure out who makes that kind of stuff, when I saw Osem, I was thinking "how haven't they been acquired by some behemoth?" And then quickly found "ah nevermind, nestle" Peanut butter cheetos sounds like an incredible proposition, I'm going to be looking around for them this weekend!

Trader Joes (and Costco) are just fine selling branded product if they can get a deal for it cheap enough. It's usually the manufacturer that doesn't want to "cheapen their brand" to hit the price points, but they're willing to "bulk up" for Costco or sell direct to Trader Joes at times.

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

#97

Post by [deleted] »

firstlink wrote: post #22
guywithabike wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how widespread this advice is, but my son’s pediatrician had us start introducing peanut butter before he was eating solids by adding progressively more peanut butter to his bottle. So it feels like this is becoming the recommended approach to avoiding food allergies.

Essentially illegal in the US though, given school requirements.

[deleted]

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

#98

Post by chunk_waffle »

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…

> 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 compared to the general populace.

Interesting... my wife is East Asian and has no history of Peanut allergies in her family. Same for my family (Caucasian, US) yet our daughter is allergic.

My wife also ate a lot of peanut butter while pregnant...

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

#99

Post by chunk_waffle »

adamredwoods wrote: post #75
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…

We also tried to give our child (when a baby) peanut butter early and was rushed to the ER. Terrifying.

I'm wondering why the article doesn't point out that risk either. If your child is 3-5 months old and is severely allergic (but you don't know it yet) it seems like they could have a severe reaction to even a small amount of peanuts.

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

#100

Post by brewdad »

latchkey wrote: post #48
ladberg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/058373 "Bamba Peanut Snacks contain just four, simple ingredients: corn grits, peanut paste, palm oil, and salt."

The palm oil is less than ideal but this isn't exactly health food to begin with.
Post reply on HN