Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

Peanut allergies is one of those things I have only seen in American pop culture and media. Like anxious kids breathing in a brown paper bag.

I know people have peanut allergies all over the world. But the significance of the allergy is definitely different in the US than most other places imo.

My son's daycare in Australia doesn't allow peanuts or eggs due to allergy management concerns so I don't think this is an American thing? I had a friend in high school who had a peanut allergy and had an epipen.

"breathing into a brown paper bag"? An anaphylatic reaction is literally a life-threatening event requiring prompt medical intervention. It's not "anxiety".

Poster is talking about two different phenomenon.

In which case it's even more weird because again: an anaphylactic shock is a life-threatening event that will kill you without prompt medical intervention. The epipen is _literally_ just to keep you alive long enough to get to the hospital.

And funnily enough, the breathing in a paper bag is _absolutely_ a recommended treatment for anxiety attacks by doctors. My father is one, and had my wife do it when she had a panic attack during a particularly rough airplane landing recently.

So again: it's a standard and normal thing, which is in the regular medical parlance.

The reason to do it is your trigger to breathe is based on CO2 acidity, not oxygen - you can't detect O2 (hence why inert gas asphyxiation is a huge hazard) but can detect CO2. But if you start shallow breathing very rapidly you end up in feedback loop. Rebreathing the air ups the CO2 content, which encourages the body to take deeper breathes, which in turn helps with the anxiety and ensures you do get enough oxygen (since you can wind up passing out, and low O2 wipes out the reasoning center of thought very quickly).

In any given conversation, there is a specific floor level in which you would jump out the window to escape.

This is a 1.5 floor level conversation. It’s not even a conversation, really — you’ve assumed we’re all having a homogenous argument about the validity of the epipen and the brown paper bag, and you’re informing us of our wrongness about something we do not even assert.

But the worst part of it is, you’ve replaced the original poster with me, replying to my comment — which was merely intended to correct a harmless misunderstanding you’ve made — as though I posted the original thought.

What is it you expect me to reply with here? A defense thesis for the original poster? An acceptance that the original poster’s opinion is crushed because of the science you supposedly brought to the table?

I have no doubt that whatever response you have cooking up now will turn this into a 2nd floor one. I’ll be on my way while I can make a soft safe landing, but good luck with whatever it is you hoped to do here.