Posted on 01/05/2017 3:58:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 01/05/2017 4:35:21 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Bull. I found out about my daughter’s peanut allergy during her first ever peanut butter sandwich at age 6 months. She ended up in the emergency room (another first).
No doubt a matter of determination, and obviously worth it — kudos.
I’ve had a peanut allergy since I was a baby because my mom fed me peanut butter with her daily breakfast of peanut butter and honey on toast.
Too simplistic. I’m not sure there is a one-size-fits-all solution.
My son ate plenty of peanut butter as a toddler. Peanuts and/or cashews were always his favorite snack (once age-appropriate), and he preferred them over chips, cookies or candy. With four older brothers and two dogs in a house that, while not a pig sty, certainly isn’t anywhere near spotless, I can guarantee he was exposed to plenty of germs. He was breastfed for over a year, too.
And yet, for some unknown reason, he suddenly developed a severe nut allergy at the age of 8. The doctor couldn’t tell me why, but only commented that they’re seeing it happen more and more in older kids.
I never even heard of peanut allergies until years after completing school. I do wonder what has caused such an increase of allergies.
I figured this out on my own and did it. Makes sense. Just like babies born to families with at least 2 furry pets in the home have less chance of asthma and respiratory allergies. None of my kids have those.
Yeah I don’t understand allergies at all. I never had ANY food allergies. Then about 4 years ago I suddenly got a deadly allergy to macadamia nuts. I had eaten them all my life. Now I can’t get near one. Doc said it could kill me. How weird is that? So I now avoid all tree nuts in case of another sudden incident. I love nuts but no more.
Peanuts, I can eat.
We grew up in peanut country. Teens would help with the harvest and there was peanut dust everywhere. School lunch trays always had some form of peanut butter on them - an apple with pb, a big pb cookie, a Dixie cup of pb and honey for the ooooh so wonderful yeast rolls the lunch ladies made from scratch, etc. No one ever heard of peanut allergies.
Twenty years ago, kiddo’s preschool class planted peanuts and brought home the little plants. I still occasionally plant some reserved peanuts in the garden just to keep the memory going. So, all this allergy business started sometime in the past twenty years.
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