Well the baby-boomer generation didn't have the peanut allergies and not many died young either.I don't know one who did.
I just don't understand what changed.Not looking for an argument here--I just don't get it.
But I found out the hard way, when I got my very first ambulance ride to the hospital with my one year old baby.
And I am the LAST one to buy into all of these new fangled syndromes and diseases. I wish someone would figure out the cause, cause now I have to carry around epinephrine everywhere we go, in case my kid tries to die on me. Nice, huh?
Imagine . . .school lunches, birthday party snacks, trick or treating, any little slip could kill her.
I still obviously don't deal with it well.
Well the baby-boomer generation didn't have the peanut allergies and not many died young either.I don't know one who did.
This is such a tragic story. It is true that some kids just died years ago and and no one understood why. But it is also true that 50 years ago (the boomers) childhood deaths became the rare exception at the same time that the medical community finally got a handle on diagnosing and treating allergies. But that was at the same time that Cracker Jacks and other peanut products became every-day items across the land and not rare treats that many would never be exposed to, yet these kind of allergies were virtually unheard of then.
Something isn't "what it used to be" with this peanut stuff. It's no longer a one in a million thing, and the increases do not seem to be a result of better diagnostics and record keeping.
Is it the peanuts we produce today versus 50 years ago, the more frequent exposure, or the people we produce that has changed?
We need to find out.
Yes, kids and adults today have more allergies than they did in the past. There are several theories - the most prominant pointing to immunizations and over-clean household environments. People in less developed countries have fewer allergies.