Posted on 05/18/2015 3:27:32 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Kids living with asthma may have a peanut allergy, or be sensitive to peanuts, but not know it, a new study claims.
Dr. Robert Cohn, a medical director of Pulmonary Medicine at Dayton Children’s Hospital, and his team studied 1,517 children who went to a pulmonary clinic for respiratory problems.
The team says 11% knew they had a peanut allergy but discovered that 22% of the children who returned and had a blood test for peanut allergies tested positive. They then found that more than half of the 22% of kids who tested positive did not suspect that they had any allergy or sensitivity to peanuts.
“I don’t think children with peanut allergies would be misdiagnosed with asthma. It is most likely the other way around. Children with asthma might not be recognized as having a peanut sensitivity,” Cohn told TIME. “Parents of children with asthma should understand that there may be asthma medicines that are not advised in children with peanut allergies.”
Cohn says it may be useful for a child to be screened for peanut sensitivity if they have been diagnosed with asthma, especially if they have an uncontrolled cough or wheezing.
The study was presented Sunday at the ATS 2015 International Conference in Denver.
Wow.
That’s a huge increase in awareness.
Since 50 years ago nobody ever heard of or had peanut specialness.
I'll miss the delicious smell of roasted peanuts though.
>>Since 50 years ago nobody ever heard of or had peanut specialness.
We played outdoors for hours every day, didn’t sanitize our hands every time they touched something, breathed second-hand smoke, and ate simple foods back then. In other words, we had immune systems that worked.
I swam in and built a failed raft to navigate a stock tank.
Stepped on Bull-Nettles. Jumped off the roof with Evel Kneivel.
Shot doves and ate ‘em. Fell off the trailer fulla hay on the way down the hill.
Personally, I’m not a whole lot of sympathetic toward peanut allergies.
Bkmrk. My kid has been diagnosed with both....but not severe.
I think there is a gut bacteria that has been shown to protect against food allergies and that is often wiped out by excess antibiotics in infancy. I’ll still take my 21st century lifestyle but forgot 50 years, the numbers of sufferers are up like 50% in less than 20 which is truly incredible.
Nuts to you. My DH (age 87) did all the above except the hay. Allergic. Can’t have nuts or legumes, either. Passed it on to our daughter. More for me.
Where’s your sympathy to those with a peanut/nut problem? You have a sympathetic heart allergy??
Add infant formula to that. Beastmilk fed babies have great gut flora; formula fed do not. Thanks to the womyn’s movement, having babies is oh so convenient.
We had some DH (DeHumidifier) units in the tank car lining shop but they were way newer than that.
Virtually every kid in those days ate tons of peanuts and peanut butter. Never knew one kid with a peanut allergy. Never knew it existed.
But undoubtedly, it's real. The question is why? Like you implied: is it the partly or mostly due to kids today being more "protected" than in past eras? Really puzzling.
Our daughter had severe asthma, like helicopter ride to children’s severe. We took her off dairy against the “specialist’s” wishes. She doesn’t even take any meds anymore.
That’s geat. Glad she’s doing well. :)
Good luck with yours and question the “specialists.”
Ty! <3
Never bottle fed my 4 kids, and being a pediatric nurse, I rarely ran to the docs for drugs/ antibiotics. 3 kids with no allergies at all, but first born has her Dad’s asthma and nut/peanut allergies. Go figure.
Husband was only one he knew who had nut allergy, and daughter (now 57) was only one in her class. They both learned how to pick and choose.
This whole fear about having nuts forbidden in school makes me wonder. What happens when you open a door to a store, ride a bus, go to a restaurant, sit at a game? You can’t control the world, so learn how to live in it, and be aware.
My appologies: I didn’t mean that all bf babies are fine and all formula fed babies are not. There are many factors with allergies and asthma; however, looking at some of our childhood health issues it makes me wonder about the formula issue. Of course I’m biased, my kids got the real stuff lol!
I ate jars of Skippy peanut butter and I was thought to have asthma. This back in the early-mid 1960’s. Drank milk and had it with my cereal.
I had a thyroid problem only recently diagnose (2009). The fix for me was lots of vitamin D and I also take iron and magnesium. I take no thyroid meds. I now do not have the breathing problems I had as a kid.
It could be a combination of the foods we eat that triggers allergic reactions
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