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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone else think this hysteria over nuts is causing more allergies?

I have a friend who won’t feed her egg-allergic son any nuts “just in case.” The kid’s been tested and only reacted to eggs. He’s 4 and has never eaten a nut! She won’t even buy food processed in facilities with nuts.

Some people are nuts, pun intended. [/quote]

Actually, the research is leaning towards this - that is, a child with another food allergy has a higher incidence of having allergies to other foods - so it's important to "innoculate" the child NOW as a young child by having them eat the foods they aren't allergic to.  Omitting those nuts from his diet MIGHT (not will, not 100% correlated) mean he will develop a nut allergy because his body won't recognize it and will react against it when he accidently eats them (which happens, no matter how vigilant we all are - I've had to use my epipen as a full-on adult).

it used to be that everyone was told "don't give your child any nuts or peanut butter! OMIGOD" and they "THINK" that this might have led those kids who might have developed an allergy to do that.  BUT if they had been eating nuts and peanuts without reaction, they'd be innoculated and never show up as allergic.

Of course, I was born in 1964 and my first nut reaction was at 18-24 months so there are exceptions to that rule.  And because of my food allergies by niece and newphew were not given peanuts or nuts until they were 4 years old and BOTH of them are fine and not allergic.  They are now 15-17 years old, so that was old thinking.  You do what is best based on the information you have now.  Now my sister would have chosen to have her children start eating those items and eggs and milk by the time they were 10-12 months old to 'innoculate' them against the allergies.

And I know a few adults who developed an allergy to a specific nut in their 30s after eating them all their lives!  [/quote]

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