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Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
(www.nytimes.com)
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Is this because people who have peanut allergies are now dead?
It is because we are exposing infants to allergens which in turn trains their immune systems to not have the reaction to them. So any reaction other than sever from early, trace, exposure will allow for the child to grow up without the allergic reactions to them, and other allergens, not just peanuts.
early on, before heavy sanitation, people were exposed to more parasites and other microbes than today. apparently parasites modulate the immune system to not attack them, so this has a beneficial effect against AUTOimmune and by extension cancers. i think there is helminthic therapy going on, but i dont think its sanctioned in the medical field. of course it doesnt work with all parasites.(hookworm seems to reduce allergic ashtma). but parasites ascaris worms can trigger it, mainly because the worms travel to the airways and trigger irritation of the lungs.
Well this seems to be more exposure to the allergens themselves, rather than anything to do with parasites. I have heard this before, and I have seen research into how parasites affect your immune system, looking into the possibility that not only can we force functions to fight the parasites properly, but also possibly get into medicine that could modify autoimmune function to not go off the rails, and not react to things that aren't actually some sort of poison.
or because of more awarness and better food safety standards.
I have no idea but I think it's just because of the difference in the way modern mothers think compared to mothers in the 90s and stuff. Modern mothers do not just blindly take medicine and stuff when they are pregnant. Sometimes medicines can have weird effects on the immune system and allergies can be developed when the immune system associates harmless things with disease. This is a wild guess, but I bet many of these people had peanut allergies because their mothers were taking antihistamines or something in the 90s while they were pregnant. It used to be considered safe and often recommended for mother's to take a wide variety of medicine, but our understanding of medicine has advanced quite a bit since then, and we now understand the body as a far more dynamic and self balancing thing, and we weigh the risks of using drugs to be high. In modern times doctors will shy away from prescribing drugs to pregnant mothers unless there is something dangerous or particularly needed.
More digestible way of saying what you're saying:
We've learned much. The way we treat pregnant woman has changed. We're much more conservative as to what we prescribe or condone.
Maybe some odd factor we haven't thought of changed? What if that factor/behavior changed the infant's immune system? What if we quit doing that thing and the issue has self-corrected, but we haven't put 2 and 2 together?
Yes, our biology is the most complex thing I know of. We just have to keep moving forward with what we know. Sorry everyone is treating you like an antivaxxer.
You should have stopped here.
Go bother someone else please
Hello! Welcome to posting on a public forum where anyone is allowed to reply to you.
No the above poster is right. Your wild guess is a wild guess and not based on the science which you could have googled.
OP's making a guess, presenting an example of something weird we hadn't considered. Fair play. Y'all are far too literal in your reading skills.
You should know what the concept of science is before you go using the word like your sacrificial cow. Google is one of the most anti scientific institutions on earth. You should never believe anything you read from Google.
It's literally in the sub headline of the linked article
I have no idea where you came up with what you posted.
Google can directly lead you to the original sources and studies that have made these conclusions, dumb-dumb. They're not saying to blindly listen to the AI overview, they're saying to Google it and find the scientific studies that are publicly accessible instead of making wild guesses.
Especially if you click on links that arent just the first 2 pages of sponsored content.
Cory Doctorow, who knows a thing or 2 about this, used kagi as his search engine(or did for a while) and says it uses google without a bunch of garbage results(though it also doesn't exclusively use google for it's results)
Please do not spread medical misinformation.
What he's saying makes sense, just don't take it 100% literally. See my reply to him. I get where he's coming from.