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Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

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eindiran wrote: post #196
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #194

I always wondered how kids end up with pollen allergies. I mean who doesn't take their kid outside in the spring? Or is the offending pollen only endemic to certan areas, so you could grow up in a normal way somewhere and still get it? I'm not strongly allergic to anything, but certain mosquitoes and also horseflies will make the bite swell up a ridiculous amount sometimes. But it never happened with the mosquitoes a…

Anaphylactic allergies, particularly food-based ones, seem to have a rather different etiology than other allergies.

Is an anaphylactic allergy just an allergy severe enough to cause anaphylactic shock, or does it denote a different mechanism altogether?

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Post by silversmith »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I knew this before, as a fact like any other.

Now that I've recently become a parent, it's... it's shocking. The idea of handing someone that young and helpless off to strangers raises a strong "NO!" reaction, right from the gut instead of the brain.

In my neck of the woods we get 1.5 years maternity leave, and experiencing it myself I'm honestly not sure even that is enough.

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Post by myshpa »

AlanSE wrote: post #193
tohnjitor wrote: post #146

After confirming we had no history of nut allergies in either family, our pediatrician gave us a free sample of a peanut butter/apple sauce baby food when my daughter was ~3 or 4 months old. I must have spent hundreds of dollars on the stuff over time because it was her favorite. Unfortunately the brand seems to no longer exist. https://my-peanut.com My wife now makes the baby food from scratch since with triplets it…

From 2005 until now, rates of peanut allergies have increased 2-fold or more in the US. Similar for tree nuts. Anecdotally, it feels like more. There's a huge generational shift even among recent parents, where it feels like a problem just didn't have very long ago, but we do now. It's true that we had bad advice to not introduce peanuts which provably made the problem worse (and has now been reversed), but this is o…

Same with gluten allergy. I've come across the opinion that the problem isn't really the gluten, but the pesticides.

Something similar may be to blame here.

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Post by nerdponx »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #194

I always wondered how kids end up with pollen allergies. I mean who doesn't take their kid outside in the spring? Or is the offending pollen only endemic to certan areas, so you could grow up in a normal way somewhere and still get it? I'm not strongly allergic to anything, but certain mosquitoes and also horseflies will make the bite swell up a ridiculous amount sometimes. But it never happened with the mosquitoes a…

> Or is the offending pollen only endemic to certan areas, so you could grow up in a normal way somewhere and still get it?

This happened to me. I never had seasonal allergies growing up in New York, but in Massachusetts I am brutally allergic to whatever pollen is in the air in the spring and fall.

I also never was allergic to my pet cats until I went away to college and wasn't constantly exposed to cat hair. I first started getting itchy eyes when they slept on my bed after I came back home to visit.

> It did occur after a course of antibiotics, maybe that helped trigger it somehow.

This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm glad the research is finally starting to catch up to this kind of thing too. People with issues like this have been pooh-poohed out of doctors' offices for decades.

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Post by scythe »

throwaway12245 wrote: post #121
brewdad wrote: post #100

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

>palm oil is less than ideal Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?

Palm oil generates an incredible amount of pollution in Internet comment sections whenever it is mentioned, because people don't realize that it's simply the most productive oil per unit acre by far. If not for Indonesian rainforest palm oil you'd need to cut down 2-3x as much Brazilian rainforest for soybeans or Phillippine rainforest for coconuts to meet the same demand. 71% of palm oil is consumed between the Caspian Sea and the Pacific. Approximately one-third is used for nonfood applications, particularly the Indonesian biodiesel industry, which if you wanted to do something about deforestation, you could pay them to stop doing that in particular.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/palm-oil...

It is a saturated fat, but it's being mixed with highly unsaturated peanut oil, so the whole-product average is probably insignificant.

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Post by ijustwanttovote »

chadash wrote: post #16

This is not new news, but nonetheless important to replicate and keep studying. I think the first often-cited study about this was in 2008 [1]. There are several more, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 [2]. Basically, the original study looked at Jewish kids in Israel versus the UK and saw that peanut allergies were about 10x lower in Israel, even though Jews of European background (Ashkena…

Target sells Bambas in the USA. We bought it to feed our infant for the same reasons you mentioned.

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Post by gnicholas »

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

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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!

I love cheetos and pb (I even put PB powder in my smoothies), but having tried these many times, they are not very tasty. I understand that some people who at them a lot as very little kids continue to like them as adults. But they have never been tempting to me, even when we had them in the house for the purpose of feeding them to our babies.
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