[fortunecookie]

My apologies if this was already posted, my search indicated it was not.

It's allergy 'season' again, so I thought this was apropos. My mother loved apples and fish of all kinds, but this did not prevent me, her firstborn, from having a variety of allergies, some severe, starting with hayfever from a very young age. But my younger siblings seemed relatively immune, at least until adulthood.

[henkster]

Study: Apples, Fish May Protect Babies from Asthma, Allergies,

I put a bunch of apples and dead fish in my kids’ crib. It worked.

[netmilsmom]

I find it odd that when mothers took aspirin, drank coffee with breakfast, wine with dinner and smoked while pregnant, I knew not a single child who had asthma or allergies. Moms use antibacterial soap and alcohol wipe everything their children touch.
Now every child seems to have something. Even my own are allergic to Mosquito bites and get huge red welts at point of contact.

Makes me wonder if these babies are not being exposed to ENOUGH to have them build immunities of their own.

(ducking for asking....)