Why the hell are so many people suddenly allergic to peanuts? This was not a problem when I was a kid.
I don't understand it either. I have a classmate whose daughter died because of a miniscule amount of peanut .Her friend's dad made brownies for their slumber party--even made some with no peanuts. Apparently, he stirred the batters with the same spoon. The girl didn't have her syringe with her.
I heard about this peanut allergy a while back. Some airlines have stopped handing out peanuts as snacks.
Speaking of anaphylactic shock and allergies, I know a lady who is allergic to olive oil!
My friends youngest son has an allergy to peanuts.
My friend was asking the same thing about where the hell this came from.
The doc gave some mumbo jumbo about people getting healthier but the body changing and some other crap.
For awhile he gave his son one shot for emergencies but now, gives him 2 emergency needles to carry.
Its really heart breaking watching a kid have to learn how to use a needle "just in case".
There was a case in Maryland a few years ago where the mother sued, not just to make her kid's school peanut-free, but to force all the other kids' HOMES to become peanut-free as well. In the newspaper article, it said that her morning sickness had been so bad that the only thing she could keep down was peanut butter, and she ate a jar a day. Apparently it DOES cross the placental barrier, & sensitized the poor kid prenatally.
I don't really know, but I have read that one theory is that food allergy is on the rise as a result of the increase in asthma. The two seem to occur together.
This was not a problem when I was a kid.
Aw, cmon. You can't be that old. Peanut allergy was around before you were born.
Every kid needs to eat a pound of dirt.
Kids don't play dangerous games outside anymore.
With all the shots they get, their little immune systems are all dressed up with nowhere to go.
When their ready-for-combat immune systems run into the peanut antigen, sometimes they are faked out into thinking it's a germ.
I also do not understand the severeness of the reatcion. I have gone into Anaphylactic Shock between 20 and 30 times throughout my life. I have a good deal of allergies and have all my life. I did think I was going to die once- but that was after eating a bunch of Shell fish- which I later found out I was allergic to. I don't understand why these kids are so very sensitive to peanuts. We can not have anything made with peanuts near a child in my son's homeschool group.
Thank you!
Peanut Butter as a deadly menace?? Why aren't half the kids I grew up with dead? Everybody eats the stuff but these violent reactions (tragic though they may be) are a relatively new phenomenon.
I have a guess, but no research to back it up (there might *be* some, I just haven't checked).
My guess would be that "in the old days", toddlers with this allergy would die young from it, often without the parents or doctors realizing why, and thus you'd rarely run into any teens or adults with the problem -- few survived that long.
In more modern times, there's better awareness of this problem, and more toddlers who have adverse reactions get saved in the hospital and their problems diagnosed, allowing them to survive into post-toddlerhood, thus you run into more people who have the allergy now.
Americans have eaten more peanut products in the last 2-3 generations than ever before and maybe it's just bringing out the sensitivity in the population
I'm 52 and I remember my brothers coming home from school with the news that a boy died from eating peanut butter. The sad thing is he knew he wasn't supposed to but a teacher made him clean his plate.
Evening Star, in the old days little Timmy probably died shortly after eating peanut butter when he was a baby. Kids used to die all the time and probably most parents and doctors chalked it up to notthing but childhood illness. My great grandmother had 7 kids. Only 4 made it to adulthood.