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Peanut allergies ... just don't understand
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 392507" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>My allergist strongly believes the increase in allergies is environmental. The rates for allergies in third world countries is very low and rates increase in developing countries. Who knows what they'll eventually find out to be the trigger: just think how much more prevalant plastic is in food storage and preparation compared to when I was a kid and was still taking lunch in a metal lunchbox with my milk in a glass thermos.</p><p> </p><p>I also think that the fact that due to advances in medicine people who would have died due to asthma and servere allergies just two generations ago are living to contribute to the gene pool could have something to do with it.</p><p> </p><p>Peanut allergy is a strange one. I was one of those severely allergic kids--reacted to foods in breast milk, allergic to formula, spent years fighting eczema in the days before they had good medications for it, ruptured eardrums, and by my teens had respiratory congestion/drainage/pressure so bad that it was verging on debilitating. Thank God due to shots and medications those severe reactions are behind me, although I do exercise caution and know I'll pay if I eat a bowl of ice cream or use whipped cream on a dessert. But I can eat peanut butter by the spoonful without a single problem and so can my kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 392507, member: 701"] My allergist strongly believes the increase in allergies is environmental. The rates for allergies in third world countries is very low and rates increase in developing countries. Who knows what they'll eventually find out to be the trigger: just think how much more prevalant plastic is in food storage and preparation compared to when I was a kid and was still taking lunch in a metal lunchbox with my milk in a glass thermos. I also think that the fact that due to advances in medicine people who would have died due to asthma and servere allergies just two generations ago are living to contribute to the gene pool could have something to do with it. Peanut allergy is a strange one. I was one of those severely allergic kids--reacted to foods in breast milk, allergic to formula, spent years fighting eczema in the days before they had good medications for it, ruptured eardrums, and by my teens had respiratory congestion/drainage/pressure so bad that it was verging on debilitating. Thank God due to shots and medications those severe reactions are behind me, although I do exercise caution and know I'll pay if I eat a bowl of ice cream or use whipped cream on a dessert. But I can eat peanut butter by the spoonful without a single problem and so can my kids. [/QUOTE]
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