Posted on 11/27/2013 6:06:55 PM PST by rickmichaels
CTV's Kate Eggins introduces us to a local doctor that using an experimental technique to try to cure peanut allergies.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
I’m thinking a Snickers Suppository might work for a lot of these people.
Who’s funding the study? SKIPPY! (jk)
I can not imagine a life without peanut butter.
I could not get the video at the link to play.
How come nobody in the Third World seems to have food allergies?
That is super cool! I remember watching a show or documentary many years ago when I was young where a man who was dangerously allergic to bees underwent the same desensitization process and then had to maintain by allowing one bee to sting him daily. He had to keep these bees in his home and grab one and hold it to his arm daily. It has been >20 years since I saw that, so the details are fuzzy. Anyway, I suppose it’s just the same concept as allergy shots.
Well, 2 reasons come to mind. First, they are probably eating the same food their ancestors have eaten for thousands of years, so they wouldn’t be allergic to it. Second, if they did happen to be allergic to something they ate, they’d probably just die young and not pass on the genes.
Oh yeah, and the third reason is that faking a food allergy would serve no purpose in the 3rd world, because nobody has any sympathy to spare for that down there.
They don’t live long enough to develop any?
Probably because they are eating real food... or maybe not.
I bet the first world eats a ton of soy... it’s in just about every processed food.
parasites at a very young age keeps allergies at bay, many here in America never touch the floor or step foot out on solid ground until they are teens and mother finally lets go.
Anything to put a cork in this laughably absurd ‘rise’ in ‘peanut allergies’.
There have been a number of news stories of school students spreading peanut oil/butter/etc. over public surfaces as an acid test to supposed ‘allergies’. Even kids can see through BS this transparent.
My youngest son was diagnosed with peanut allergy at an early age.
As an infant he would scream if you put anything with peanuts in his mouth. I thought it was funny ... who doesn’t like peanut butter. I figured he’d discover one day he likes peanuts.
He was tested for allergies and was found to be highly allergic to peanuts, among other things. But I didn’t know how dangerous the allergy was.
The few times he got something containing peanuts in his mouth, he would spit it out, saying it burned like fire. Once he washed his mouth out with water, and that made him get some of the food in his stomach. He vomited for hours.
One night at church they gave the young’uns ice cream, and they threw a handful of peanuts in the trough. He swallowed the ice cream ... apparently the cold prevented the pain reaction.
On the way home he stopped breathing. I was alone, and didn’t know this was how peanuts affect him. I was able to get him to an ER. They asked if he had peanut allergies. We found out later about putting peanuts in the dessert.
Peanut allergies can be deadly. My son doesn’t react to skin contact with nuts, but I know of people who have died from dermal contact with peanuts.
Soap and water after being out making mudpies has been replaced with hand disinfectant after web surfing at the public library. It takes its toll.
And you would be one of the very valid examples. I’m not saying these things don’t exist at all.
But a few too many crunchy-granola yuppie mothers have claimed that their kid has to be all but put on life support if someone drops a peanut in a mile radius, and between the claims and the demands for healthy kids for, say, banning them bringing a PB&J sandwich...it’s starting to get on people’s nerves.
Exactly. Medical mollycoddling is already starting to backfire and at some point it will become impractical to continue shielding kids from what are basically self-made genetic vulnerabilities. THAT is not going to be pretty.
banning them bringing a PB&J sandwich...it’s starting to get on people’s nerves.
I am on the same page with you... and it is alarming to me that the developed world reasons that money can be thrown at our ills, when in athe macro sense, illness and death play a role in health and life.
I feel that there is really just a big security scam where these Billion Dollar “placebos” are actually doing harm to the “survival of the species”, so to speak.
I don’t even take aspirin... and it is hard to find people that agree that modern medicine is really not all that intelligent... it is horrifying that the government is meddling in the industry... preying on ordinary fears of disease and death... add in the word “salvation” and it is very similar to organized religion, actually.
One of the things I do with my son is I check packaged foods for peanuts in the ingredient list. But every once in a while I give him something I know contains peanuts. I’ll let him get the food almost to his mouth before intervening. I tell him he cannot rely on ANYONE to be diligent for him. He needs to be his own last defense and he needs to read the ingredient list himself.
Having said that, a couple months ago he ate something that apparently had some cross contamination. That happens occasionally. Chucky Cheese had some flour once that had been cross-contaminated at the flour factory. This time, I happened to be driving right past the hospital when he realized he couldn’t breathe.
+100. See, you’re realistic about this.
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