Did anyone on this forum ever hear or know of anyone having a nut allergy in their school during the late l940’,s, 1950’s, and 1960’s. Why so many nowadays?
I went to schools of 3000 kids in the ‘60s and ‘70s and never heard of a peanut allergy. I had my children in the ‘80s. Apparently, after that, it became a no-no for pregnant and breastfeeding women to eat peanuts or peanut butter. According to another article posted, kids get peanut allergies if they are not exposed to peanuts as infants.
No, I knew no one with peanut allergies. In fact, I knew no one who had any kind of “life threatening” allergies at all.
And I only knew one kid who had asthma.
Regards,
PS: I did know a couple of kids who were allergic to dogs or cats. My own brother was very sensitive to poison ivy, but that’s all.
Home cooking during the time we grew up versus fast food and processed food of today.
Never heard of this until a few years ago. PB&J was packed in most lunches of the kids in my 50’s-60’s school days.
You asked about nut allergies back in earlier days. I grew up in the 60’s, and my older brother had a violent allergy to black walnuts, of all things. (My grandparents had a black walnut tree, else I suppose he would never have been exposed to them at all.) But I do not remember any of my schoolmates having peanut allergies.
I just read about the recent Israeli study that seems to indicate that kids who are not exposed to peanuts earlier actually have higher rates of allergies to them. I had been holding off on giving my twin toddlers peanut butter ... but that study decided me, and they’ve been eating it ever since (a couple of weeks now). No anaphylactic shock so far! :)
I was in public school from ‘52 to ‘64 and PB&J sandwiches were a staple. I never heard of an allergy to peanuts until the late ‘80s.
I was in grade school back in the sixties and never heard of peanut butter allergies. Who didn’t eat PB&J sandwiches then?
They all dropped dead and it was blamed on...?