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Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

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178 points JumpCrisscross | 3 comments | 20 Oct 25 18:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.724s | source
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atleastoptimal ◴[20 Oct 25 21:22 UTC] No.45649551[source]▶
Common sense thinking wins again. The entire genesis of an allergy is your body treats a benign particle as a pathogen due to not recognizing it. The #1 way to precipitate this is to keep the body from ever encountering this particle until well beyond its initial phases of immune development.

Are there other modern conditions born from the same "zero-tolerance prevention leads to unintended consequences due to failing to provide the body a robust means to develop"?

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1. hulitu ◴[21 Oct 25 06:25 UTC] No.45653024[source]▶
> The entire genesis of an allergy is your body treats a benign particle as a pathogen due to not recognizing it

And why the body does not recognize it ? Because it is tainted. Putting all kind of pesticides and other substances on plants does modify the "original".

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2. ErikCorry ◴[21 Oct 25 09:28 UTC] No.45653983[source]▶
[Citation needed] for a pesticide connection.

Unless you are an insect, most pesticides are harmless for you. And for those that are not, nobody has proved a connection to allergies.

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3. smrq ◴[21 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45656693[source]▶
Perhaps those who make assertions based on "common sense" instead of evidence are pests, and thus pesticides are effective against them?