Posted on 10/28/2018 7:03:02 PM PDT by SMGFan
A study from the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at New York's Mount Sinai hospital found that from 1997 to 2008, peanut allergies tripled from 1-in-250 children to 1-in-70.
Among children, allergies to peanuts and other types of food continues to climb, but experts say there is some progress in controlling or preventing life-threatening reactions.
A food allergy, defined as a reaction that occurs when the immune system attacks harmless proteins, is an ailment that drugmakers are working to treat. One method involves treatments that introduce small amounts of peanuts to allergy sufferers, which gradually increases the amount to build toleranc e.
The exploding segment of the population suffering from certain food ailments is skyrocketing, and experts are stumped on the reasons why. A study from the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at New York's Mount Sinai hospital found that from 1997 to 2008, peanut allergies tripled from 1-in-250 children to 1-in-70.
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Drink from the garden hose, and get some beneficial bacteria.
I think you are on to something here.
The human immune system is incredibly proficient at killing harmful bacteria, germs and viruses. But it needs constant practice to be in top "fighting" shape.
Just like a world-class boxer will quickly lose his edge if he sits on a beach sipping margaritas, so our immune system will lose its edge if we constantly keep our bodies in a sanitized environment.
We need to expose ourselves to everyday germs to keep our immune system humming. I take a shower every day but I don't bother with those silly hand sanitizers you see everywhere and I don't necessarily wash my hands before eating (only if my hands are noticeably dirty).
As a result, I almost never catch even a common cold and after 55 years of living, have yet to spend a night in the hospital (except maybe the night I was born).
As for peanuts, I eat them by the pound.
My nephew has it bad. Had it since he was a few months old.
Wish they’d find a cure.
We have lots of kids. Only one has peanut allergies. They were all raised basically the same as far as exposures. We don’t know why he has allergies. We found out when we gave him peanut butter at the age of one. He blew up like a balloon and we took him into the emergency room. Anaphylactic reaction. My wife and I are not allergic to any kind of food.
Weve got thousands of more chemicals and crap in the ground and water than exited in the 50s. Birth control and other hormones in the water. So many more drug compounds in the soil and water. In the 50s you maybe had 2 vaccinescompred to dozens of multi-shot vaccines full of other damaging sh1t designed to stress out your immune response.
My two grandsons are deathly allergic to peanuts. Can’t be anywhere within fifty feet of them or peanut butter. They have MediId bracelts and Epipens with them at all times.
The older I get I’m so glad I grew up as I did. Sadly it was in an America that has pretty much vanished. Played in the dirt and mud, played tackle football with no protection, rode a bike with no helmet. Drank from a garden hose, played with fire crackers, BB guns, heck , me and my friends used to hike for miles along an active set of rail road tracks barely dodging fast passenger trains and long, slow moving freight trains. Its a wonder we weren’t killed!
I have an allergy to all foods.
I break out in fat.
When I was a kid, we ate radioactive substances.
Laz you’re the limit! Hey, is the noise inside my head too loud for you? I can turn it down ya know....
I blame HFCS.
It was during Carter that people became obsessed with energy usage. They began closing all windows, weather stripping all doors and windows, and caulking every source of cold air. Homes become so tight that when someone closed a door, your ears would pop. Then, with the use of antibacterial sanitizers, which came much later, added to the problem with immune systems becoming hypersensitive to foreign assaults of all kinds, whether harmful or beneficial.
The good think about it is when they start becoming intolerant liberal assholes marching I. The street, all we need is peanut dust to lay them all wasted!
My brother found a good sized bottle of mercury and we played with it for about a year until it disappeared, and I got myself covered in asbestos dust a few times as we threw old pipe wrappings against the wall where they exploded in a cloud of white asbestos dust.
It may yet kill me, so I am not belittling it.
That said, I find the whole thing of the ‘epidemic’ of food allergies completely bizarre.
We ate razor blades.
That’s a very sad story, but if I had an allergy 1/1024th as bad, I would not trust anyone else to cook my food. I’d just eat at home.
Or, did you find a stash of radium water, and cooked your food with it?
We couldn't afford to eat razor blades so we had to settle for barbed wire.
Barbed wire! LUXURY!
We were so poor, we had to eat interstellar plasma.
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