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Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
(www.nytimes.com)
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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.