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60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

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349 points zdw | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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slavik81 ◴[21 Oct 25 05:48 UTC] No.45652865[source]▶
One of the difficult parts of this advice for me was that my daughter wasn't eating food at the time when we were supposed to introduce it. In those cases, you're supposed to add peanut butter to the milk, which we did a few times. We let it slip for a few weeks, because it was one more thing in a pile of many things. We got her back eating peanut butter once she started eating food, but it was too late. She had developed a peanut allergy.

After going through the desensitization program at an allergist, we're on a maintenance routine of two peanuts a day. It's like pulling teeth to get her to eat them. She hates peanut M&Ms, hates salted peanuts, hates honey rusted peanuts, hates plain peanuts, hates chocolate covered peanuts, hates peanut butter cookies, and will only eat six Bamba sticks if we spend 30 minutes making a game out of it.

I highly recommend being very rigorous about giving them the peanut exposure every single day. It would have saved us a lot of time.

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gambiting ◴[21 Oct 25 07:53 UTC] No.45653487[source]▶
>>I highly recommend being very rigorous about giving them the peanut exposure every single day

I honestly can't tell if this entire post is some kind of parody or what. That cannot be real - I don't know anyone or have ever heard of anyone basically force feeding their child peanuts to maybe avoid peanut allergy later in life. It sounds insane, just like the presumption that because you missed some imaginary time window in their development your daughter has developed peanut allergy. That cannot possibly be real.

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1. onli ◴[21 Oct 25 08:14 UTC] No.45653609[source]▶
I organized a toddler group. Trust me, that absolutely can be real. One mother in particular always seemed to opt for exactly the bad option, from sitting up the baby way before it was ready (-> long term increase of likelihood of back problems) to exposing it to sun without suncreme by choice "for tolerance" (-> long term high increase of likelihood of skin cancer) to force-feeding solid food way before the baby could cope (-> nothing long-term, I'm just surprised it survived that). Bad instincts plus outdated or wrong knowledge. Thinking there is some regular peanut diet to follow would have fit right in, as would have completely avoiding peanuts.