A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.
Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months. The rate of peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 fell by more than 27% after guidance for high-risk kids was first issued in 2015, and by more than 40% after the recommendations were expanded in 2017.
We gave our son a mix of powdered common allergens in his formula early on. So far, so good.
Knock on legumes
East Asians have a lot of peanut products in everyday meals so the allergy is nearly non-existent in East Asia. It was some dumbass suggestion to stop pregnant mothers from consuming peanut products or expose babies to peanuts that caused all this.
true, asian here we have peanuts in everything, and they love to eat restuarant salted peanuts.
Unfortunately, this strategy didn’t work to prevent my kid from having the same milk allergy that I do. In fact, it’s worse.
Not fatal or anything. His lips become bright red, swelling slightly and peel later, he obviously gets days of the shits, and if it’s repeated exposure he will get rashes all over. And we’re talking some small amount of milk powder or unexpected butter deep in the ingredients of a baked good - if he actually consumed something like real milk, butter, or cheese, it would be much worse.
Goat cheese seems fine. It’s something about the cow milk proteins.
For me, it’s just a serious case of the shits when it’s the real deal. I guess my millennial upbringing of a glass of milk daily conditioned some small amount of tolerance.
Obviously nowhere near that extreme, but I know a shockingly large number of millennials (and not just the Asian babies) who, for one reason or another, had soy or nut milk as a baby, dairy milk almost our entire lives, and then realized we were lactose intolerant like late 20s/early 30s.
It, again, is obviously not that extreme. But there is very much the idea that being gassy and having “weird poops” was normal because… it was. In the sense we were constantly poisoning our bodies.
It always makes me wonder about a friend who talks about how peanut butter “makes me puffy”. Is it just a body reaction to the high fat content or is it a mild allergic reaction?
That’s how lactose intolerance works. You start out getting milk from your mother, you don’t become intolerant usually until the end of puberty.
you can gain lactose intolerance later in life, or produce less galactase to be able to break it down.
its not inherently what youre born with.
Im definitely of the group whose tolerance has decreased overtime.
I mean literally noone is born lactose intolerant. You’d just starve.
Genetic lactose intolerance develops some time later through a variation in gene expression. But the effects of lactose intolerance also vary more than that, because if you continue to consume milk your gut biome changes to reflect the abundance of nutrients.
It’s also possible for lactose intolerance to get worse as you get older - I say, as a 40+ year old who has had to cut milk out of his regular diet to have normal poops again.
I would get ear infections as a kid with cows milk, goat was fine.
Israeli people feed Bamba snacks as a first food to babies and have almost no peanut allergies. Bambas.are basically peanut butter Cheeto like puffs. I introduced peanut butter super early on with mine, because of the allergy thing, but I wish I knew about the Bambas. My friend gives them to his daughter and she loves them. I don’t know if a non Israeli equivalent exists for people avoiding supporting that country, but they are a great snack for babies.
We stuffed our kid with peanut butter when he was a kid. Worked for us.
There was a science versus podcast on this a few years ago. One of the ideas was that if a child makes contact with peanuts through skin prior to eating it, then they’re likely to have an allergy. That always confused me. Anyone have any more information on this?
i would think the more allergic you are the more sensitive to peanuts touching the skin, instead of a person only getting a reaction from eating it. if you have chronic allergies to something, you can have your IGE levels checked, although its not part of a normal test. anything over 1000(concentration of IGE levels) puts you susceptible for allergic rhinitis, asthma or atopic dermatitis, the higher it is, the more severe the “trifecta of allergy is”.
and also susceptible to allergens too of the skin. food specific might be very different though.
its only when its >2000 its a different disease altogether( a very rare immune-allergy disease)_
I would think that if both parents were highly allergic, you might want to give baby that first taste of peanut butter in a medical setting.
Surprising everyone who doesn’t know how the immune system works…
If the concern is that your infant may already have an allergy to peanuts at 4 months, and given that infants have significantly higher mortality than older children or adults who experience a severe allergic reaction, it actually makes way more sense to tread lightly and do rigorous research on the topic than it does to sit behind a keyboard and dismissively say “Duh, I knew that before you, stupid Mr./Ms. Scientist.”
Why would there be a concern?
They don’t even do allergen test till like 2 years…
Besides, the substance you’re allergic to doesn’t kill, your body’s erroronous response to it is what kills you
Exposure when young with a weak immune system, is very very unlikely to cause an extreme immune system response, which isnt a bug, it’s a feature. Literally how the immune system learns what to freak about, without causing a deadly reaction. An infant is supposed to heavily rely on antibodies from their mothers milk for actual responses.
and given that infants have significantly higher mortality than older children or adults who experience a severe allergic reaction
No idea where you pulled that from, but it’s likely per allergic reaction, and as I’ve just explained, I fanta really shouldn’t be having any immune system reaction.
The exceptions are almost entirely related to exposure to herbacide/pesticide while the mother is pregnant. Which comes along with a host of other issues drastically increasing child mortality…
But like I said initially, some people are going to be surprised, because theyre just ignorant of these things
For fucks same, what did you think doctors a decade ago thought would happen when they started recommending this?
Did you think they just wanted to kill all the infants off?
Or do you think science works by proving a hypothesis and the vast majority of the time no one is surprised when science proves it right, except people who don’t know about it?
For fucks same, what did you think doctors a decade ago thought would happen when they started recommending this?
Did you think they just wanted to kill all the infants off?
Or do you think science works by proving a hypothesis and the vast majority of the time no one is surprised when science proves it right, except people who don’t know about it?
What in the ever-loving fuck are you talking about? They issued this guidance 10 years ago after rigorous study. Which was my entire point. Why do you argue with literally everything
In 2015, a decade ago, doctors started recommending this method…
Do you think they’re shocked now?
Or do you think they only recommended it once they were confident it wouldn’t just kill off a bunch of infants before they grew into children with peanut allergies?
Because to me, it seems like we knew what would happen
And the only people surprised it worked, were ignorant up until now about what doctors have been recommending for a decade?
Can you point to these “shocked” people? Are these “surprised” people in the room with you now?
The 2015 study was only even possible because the guidelines had changed in 2008. The guidelines were changed in 2008 only after significant research was conducted. You think these guidelines should have been changed on a whim without doing any research about them? Ok, RFK Jr.
The study this post is about? Literally no one except you is “shocked” that scientists would want to measure the effect this guidance has had on mortality and morbidity. Please stop forcefully pretending like you understand science.
So…
You agree with me that the only people surprised, were ignorant of stuff that had been widely discussed for over a decade…
What exactly is your issue here?
You’re mad I said something you agreed with?
Your initial statement was pompous and dismissive of the thousands of physicians who have contributed to this medical guidance. It’s also dismissive of the reality that there are still infants who develop severe peanut allergies and for whom this method does not work, which is why high risk individuals should still only do this under medical supervision.
It’s a complex machine. Unfortunately, there’s no silver bullet. Exposure therapy helps avoid some allergies later in life. But other people just draw the generic short straw.
