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).