Peanut allergy prevalence is a very interesting topic
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
#292> 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…
> I started giving my own child chewed up food I was eating at about 2.5 months
You gave a TWO AND A HALF MONTH OLD CHILD chicken??? this is so incredibly careless that I HAVE to call out this crazy misinformation on HN. DO not ever replicate this please, everyone else.
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This is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.
Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
#294This 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…
> There is a snack called Bamba that they eat in Israel. It's kind of like a peanut butter Cheeto puff, and it is a nearly-universal snack for young kids in Israel. It melts in your mouth, so a 6-month-old can eat it almost as soon as they eat solid foods. It's about as popular in Israel as Cheerios are in the US, maybe more so. The hypothesis is that Bamba consumption there dramatically lowers the risk of developing peanut allergies.
Target sells these "Lil Mixins" sachets that contain peanut powder. They're designed to mix in to milk or oatmeal, etc. The packaging says you can use them with kids as young as 4 months. They also sell similar sachets of tree nuts and egg powder.
Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
#295This 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…
Anecdotally, giving our baby Bamba was actually how we discovered his peanut allergy, which was later confirmed by a traditional allergen skin test administered by a doctor. (We noticed puffy redness around his lips after his first piece of Bamba.)
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#296Where 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.
> My symptoms are just gastro related, so it’s probably not the same as childhood peanut allergies, though.
Maybe it's food intolerance, which is distinct from food allergy? Those I'm sure can develop later in life.
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#297When my kids were babies, we drove and parked outside the ER.
We then game them taste portions of all kinds of food that normally is associated with allergies.
We then waited a while, then drove back home.
We did that twice with a couple of months in between.
Some called us crazy :)
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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…
> the theory that most peanut allergy is caused by no exposure in infancy is well supported by the evidence The evidence supports this as one source of allergies. The cited study says 77% of such allergies may be sourced to lack of exposure, that still means almost 1/4 people with peanut allergies have them "naturally"
Yes, that’s what the word “most” means in the sentence you quoted.
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Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's "
Many years ago I worked at a candy company. I tell you more. MOST of "private label" stuff is actually manufactured by the same company as the "name brand", what is more companies routinely manufacture stuff for each other depending on the factory loads, e.g. our plant would manufacture Reese's despite having no relation to the brand and it's a very common practice.
I worked for a cookie company. Sometimes we would just swap the boxes for the name brand in the packaging machine while the line was running. The funny thing is, one box said it had some ingredient in it (it didn't) and the other one didn't.
Also at some point one company asked the cookie company to create a recipe to imitate some other product so they could compete. Except the cookie company was the one making that other product. So they copied themselves, it wasn't too hard...
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But that's exactly why this is so interesting. You take a set of people with extremely similar genetics but somehow have very different reactions. I suppose a technical (albeit not precise) analogy would be you producing 100 servers and selling half to both AWS and Azure. Then you find out that 25 of the servers at Azure are overheating and dying while AWS doesn't seem to have this problem at all. So you look into it…
> But that's exactly why this is so interesting. You take a set of people with extremely similar genetics but somehow have very different reactions. Or it's based on a hundred different other things than when they first tried peanut butter.
Your point of anything is possible is always and forever true.
The point here is that there seems to be a strong correlation between people eating Bamba and no peanut allergy. How can we develop a control group? Oh wait, there is a group of people that have the same genetics but doesn't consistently eat this...perhaps there's a connection.
The goal is to see if we can show a correlation/causation.