Increase in peanut allergies??

[Anonymous]

It's not just the PP's singular story. There are many of us telling you that we breastfed and did everything "right," and anaphylactic food allergies are still there. I know you want a simplistic answer, but if scientists don't know and can't find the reason, I am pretty sure your attempts to place the blame on maternal laziness are not going to work.

Personally, I believe that the increase in allergies and mental illness are related (not that they are related in a single person, but that there may be a common factor causing the societal increase in both). Histamine is also a neurotransmitter. Many antidepressants have powerful antihistamine properties. They have found elevated histamine levels in some anorexics. There is a potential relationship between these things worthy of more research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the PP's singular story. There are many of us telling you that we breastfed and did everything "right," and anaphylactic food allergies are still there. I know you want a simplistic answer, but if scientists don't know and can't find the reason, I am pretty sure your attempts to place the blame on maternal laziness are not going to work.

Personally, I believe that the increase in allergies and mental illness are related (not that they are related in a single person, but that there may be a common factor causing the societal increase in both). Histamine is also a neurotransmitter. Many antidepressants have powerful antihistamine properties. They have found elevated histamine levels in some anorexics. There is a potential relationship between these things worthy of more research.

N of 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My take:

too 'clean'
formula feeding and plastics from the bottles and nipples.

My two were both exclusively breastfed, and are both allergic to tree nuts; one is also allergic to peanuts. And yes they were exposed and even both ate nuts for YEARS before the allergies developed. As in one day hazelnut spread was fine, and literally the next day, big reaction.

Thank you for the N of 1.

Ok, here's another sample for you...born in the late 70s, very firmly middle class, southern VA family, raised around peanuts, ate peanut butter constantly. NOT formula fed, no antibiotics use in mother or child, lots of dirt...and still managed to develop anaphylactic peanut allergy as a teenager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the PP's singular story. There are many of us telling you that we breastfed and did everything "right," and anaphylactic food allergies are still there. I know you want a simplistic answer, but if scientists don't know and can't find the reason, I am pretty sure your attempts to place the blame on maternal laziness are not going to work.

Personally, I believe that the increase in allergies and mental illness are related (not that they are related in a single person, but that there may be a common factor causing the societal increase in both). Histamine is also a neurotransmitter. Many antidepressants have powerful antihistamine properties. They have found elevated histamine levels in some anorexics. There is a potential relationship between these things worthy of more research.

OP here. Who is this intended for? It appears out of context.

Your second paragraph is more interesting and dovetails with the 2nd "cause" that pops up easily on Dr. Google. Mental illness. My simplistic 2+2 =7 reasoning here is going outside, which is often linked to mental health. Vitamin D is what some experts are saying.

[Anonymous]

I am a major peanut butter lover - I ate it constantly throughout my pregnancies. I also have a child with a peanut allergy. She developed hives at 12 months old after getting what was probably her 10th PB&J sandwich of life. Before she could eat sandwiches, I was mixing it in her oatmeal a couple times a week. The blood test showed her specific peanut protein allergy is the more dangerous, potentially anaphylactic one.

We put her on immunotherapy immediately - she is getting small doses of peanuts every day. The allergists I have spoken to and the studies I've read all seem to agree that consistent exposure is best.

As for what caused it? Who knows. Her cousin is also allergic so maybe something genetic? Maybe I ate too much peanut butter? Maybe too much early exposure? Maybe something in all the vaccines they shot her up with? I am sure they will figure it out in a few hundred years. In the meantime, I highly recommend oral immunotherapy. The younger they start, the better.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/oral-immunotherapy-induces-remission-peanut-allergy-some-young-children

[Anonymous]

Someone told me once they thought the increase in peanut allergies was related to crop spraying having become more of a thing.

Another person told me they thought it was to do with higher instances of IVF babies.

I don't think either of these theories actually help people with allergies, however.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Who is this intended for? It appears out of context.

The PP who blamed formula feeding and plastic bottles and nipples, not to mention many of the posters on the other thread (which got truly ugly).

[Anonymous]

Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

Bingo.

I have one child conceived via IVF and another from a surprise pregnancy several years after we had stopped treatment. Guess which one has multiple anaphylactic food allergies? It isn't the IVF baby!

Both were breastfed, and we also did early introduction of major allergens with both.

[Anonymous]

There is evidence that food allergies are widely overstated and a lot of people who claim an allergy really have a sensitivity or intolerance. Remember when everyone had celiac? This leads to the general public not taking true allergies as seriously.

[Anonymous]

So much BS on this thread from people who think they know something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

Bingo.

I have one child conceived via IVF and another from a surprise pregnancy several years after we had stopped treatment. Guess which one has multiple anaphylactic food allergies? It isn't the IVF baby!

Both were breastfed, and we also did early introduction of major allergens with both.

Yeah but you're missing the point. YOU are the one who had fertility treatment, not the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

Bingo.

Bingo what? That you Two are bigoted idiots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally I see more allergies in children conceived with fertility treatments.

Bingo.

I have one child conceived via IVF and another from a surprise pregnancy several years after we had stopped treatment. Guess which one has multiple anaphylactic food allergies? It isn't the IVF baby!

Both were breastfed, and we also did early introduction of major allergens with both.

Yeah but you're missing the point. YOU are the one who had fertility treatment, not the kids.

What is she missing? That her fertility treatments had no impact in anything?