I do not believe this one whit. When my son was very young he suffered from and ear infection and was on antibiotics so repeatedly that he grew a tongue mold. He was tested and had a dust allergy. All books out of his room, one stuffed animal, make sure no mold on windowsills. His infection went away, he outgrew the dust allergy, and by the time he was eight he was constantly on his knees in the dirt. As an adult, he has no allergies.
My granddaughter had an infection on her nose as a toddler. She was on repeated antibiotics until finally a surgery was done which removed a small hair, apparently a sort of birth defect. She is five now and has no allergies.
I was wondering the other day, though, with all the peanut products in Thai food, do Thai children ever have peanut allergies?
I do not believe this one whit. When my son was very young he suffered from and ear infection and was on antibiotics so repeatedly that he grew a tongue mold. He was tested and had a dust allergy. All books out of his room, one stuffed animal, make sure no mold on windowsills. His infection went away, he outgrew the dust allergy, and by the time he was eight he was constantly on his knees in the dirt. As an adult, he has no allergies.
You may not believe it but your paragraph supports it. As a baby your son had his healthy gut population decimated, and had allergies from it. As he grew, and his diet expanded, probably a good, varied diet with the starchy fibrous food the gut bugs love, he got better. Once he started playing in the dirt, he became exposed to all the brilliant soil bacteria that help us. His diet supported that population. In this way, all his allergies left and he grew wonderful gut populations!
I grew up in peanut country. Kids would help with the peanut harvest and there was peanut dust everywhere. It was back in the day of government peanut butter so every school lunch tray had some form of peanut butter on it - a cookie, an apple with peanut butter, a dixie cup of peanut butter and honey with a fresh hot yeast roll, etc. Most kids had government peanut butter in their homes because after it was given away to the needy, they’d give what was left that month to anyone. There was so much excess hardly anyone in the county had to buy peanut butter or cheese. Or they’d grind their own from the local farms. NO ONE had a peanut allergy. No one ever heard of a peanut allergy.