Der große Erdnussallergie-„Betrug“: Wie viele Familien gingen kaputt, weil Großmutter dem 1-Jährigen Erdnüsse geben wollte?
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Der große Erdnussallergie-„Betrug“: Wie viele Familien gingen kaputt, weil Großmutter dem 1-Jährigen Erdnüsse geben wollte?
Von arnott
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[From the editorial:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/20/peanut-allergies-children-public-health-guidelines/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social)
>The journal Pediatrics published a [study](https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2024-070516/204636/Guidelines-for-Early-Food-Introduction-and?autologincheck=redirected) on Monday showing that peanut allergies in the United States have dropped by more than 40 percent in recent years. Scientists believe that’s largely thanks to changes in federal guidelines a decade ago that encouraged parents to introduce foods containing peanuts to babies in their first year of life.
So keeping peanuts away from the growing baby significantly increased the chance of the child getting peanut allergy? How many parents listened to their doctors and stopped contact with the grandparents because the grandparents wanted the kid to eat peanuts early like in the „olden“ days?
Will the doctors apologize? Will the kid’s parents apologize to the grandparents?
I always wondered why is penaut allergy such a huge thing in US, while is almost non-existent in my country.
Joey Diaz has a funny skit about this. All about exposure(micro dosing) on something until your body doesn’t have the reaction to it.
Makes me wonder if this is a side effect from a shot. I don’t understand how peanut allergy has gotten so rampant.
(Allegedly)Peanut oil in vaccines caused the allergy. That same concept applies to all allergies. Being allergic to penicillin when it was just a bunch of junk from the vaccine that caused it.
Out here in Vietnam we have no problems with the allergens. I’m guessing because the kids all died off who had a bad reaction. Meanwhile we have serious problems with lactose, unlike folks from the west.
Grandma must’ve been a little psycho if that was enough to break a family
I caught some shit for bringing my oldest to Texas roadhouse on the way home from the hospital after he was born.
My daughter is severely allergic, my wife believed the doctors and did not eat nuts while pregnant. I believe this was a contributing factor.
Peanuts are not really nuts. They are legumes like beans and peas.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy but I do think there’s a hysteria surrounding it. I know a guy who’s in his early 70s and tells me his child was one of the few back in the day who was deathly allergic to peanut oil. They would have nut oil free chips and he said he and his wife were the first to campaign in their school district to warn parents about how bad it could be and to keep peanuts out of schools and off surfaces. Their kid was indeed deathly allergic, from what I understand, and epipens weren’t something you could carry around back in those days.
Now it’s pretty standard to have an epipens if you have allergies, and to also have teachers and staff who know how to use them. I don’t think that many kids are at risk these days, and I don’t know the true percentage of people who could become anaphylactic but I’m sure it isn’t high enough with the current available technologies and treatments, to warrant banning peanut oils in schools.
I mean, exposure can lead to tolerance just as often as sensitization, depending on timing and dose. And if doctors haven’t yet collected enough data to figure it out, then it makes sense (to me) that their default advice would be to play it safe, and avoid the most fatal allergen all-together. At 4-6 months, a baby can’t even communicate, and some initial allergy symptoms aren’t obviously visible to parents, which is why anaphylaxis (and any sort of medical issue) is more dangerous in babies. My cousin almost died after eating a little peanut butter at the currently recommended 6 month mark. Finding out that early peanut avoidance causes more allergies in the long run is not enough reason to automatically change up protocol; more overall peanut allergies could be preferable if it means there is less overall peanut anaphylaxis death since fewer, more-susceptible babies are dying.
And, I’m sure collecting data on food allergies can be very difficult. I don’t even think that an allergen-specific IgE test is default procedure after an anaphylaxis death. Some allergies are delayed, and most foods are a mixture of many ingredients. Not to mention that babies and toddlers are constantly putting all sorts of things in their mouth.
Also, if any family is broken because a grandmother insisted on giving their grandbaby peanut butter, then that’s the grandma’s fault. They should respect the parents’ rules for their own child. The bigger problem that I personally noticed was the older generation straight up not believing that my cousin’s peanut allergy was “real” and endangering her life while trying to prove it.