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Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

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178 points JumpCrisscross | 12 comments | 20 Oct 25 18:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.843s | source | bottom
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aerostable_slug ◴[20 Oct 25 18:29 UTC] No.45647374[source]▶
Business idea: Allergen Aerator

Generate a miasma of benign pestilence in your child's crib, mimicking the protective inoculations provided by early exposure to peanuts and other potential allergens, "farm" air, and the like. It could be packaged with Flonase for sneezing parents and an 'essential oils' scent dispenser to cover the barnyard smell.

Use AI to tailor the precise blend of aerosolized rodent feces and tree nut dust to optimize your child's immune system, and et voila: funding!

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1. alliao ◴[20 Oct 25 20:17 UTC] No.45648750[source]▶
just buy some asian snacks... i've never seen an asian kid allergic to peanuts, when we first heard peanut allergy thought it was a skit
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2. croes ◴[20 Oct 25 20:19 UTC] No.45648790[source]▶
Survivorship bias?
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3. viraptor ◴[20 Oct 25 20:37 UTC] No.45648999[source]▶
They trade it for 5% infants with egg allergy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pai.14211
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4. evanjrowley ◴[20 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45649809[source]▶
AKA evolution
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5. IncreasePosts ◴[20 Oct 25 22:05 UTC] No.45650027[source]▶
Or Israeli: Israel presents a unique experiment because you have people from different genetic populations from different parts of the world collecting in Israel(eg Sephardic jews from Spain, Ashkenazi from central Europe, Mizrahi from Asia, etc).

Something interesting is that peanut allergies in Israel are far lower than for Jews living in Spain, central europe, etc...

One of the most popular snacks in Israel? Bambas - peanut butter puffs.

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6. 1auralynn ◴[20 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45650533[source]▶
Yeah our doctor specifically recommended Bambas. Babies love them and they sell them at Trader Joe's.
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7. croes ◴[20 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45650641{3}[source]▶
Not necessarily. How high is child mortality compared to the US?
8. arrow7000 ◴[21 Oct 25 05:54 UTC] No.45652887{3}[source]▶
Adults love bamba too (speaking as an adult who ate two bags of it just yesterday)
9. smrq ◴[21 Oct 25 14:57 UTC] No.45656622[source]▶
My definitely Asian wife's definitely Asian first cousin is deathly allergic to peanuts.
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10. alliao ◴[21 Oct 25 19:44 UTC] No.45660709[source]▶
fascinating findings between ultra processed food consumption.. Figure 1 is insane!
11. alliao ◴[21 Oct 25 19:47 UTC] No.45660751[source]▶
and now I can direct people to you for Asian with peanut allergies lol... but yeah just saying incident rate is crazy low.. I probably know indirectly around 2000 Asian or so growing up in Asia till I was 10 never heard of anyone had peanut allergies.. seafood yes, but peanut would be considered borderline theatrical definitely not anaphylaxis styled
12. cafard ◴[22 Oct 25 15:43 UTC] No.45670844[source]▶
Asian born, perhaps. A sometime co-worker's son, both parents being Chinese, has a dangerous allergy to peanuts.