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

There was a period of a few decades (I guess still ongoing, really) where parents sheltered their kids from everything. Playing in the dirt, peanuts, other allergens. It seems like all it's done is make people more vulnerable as adults. People assume babies are super fragile and delicate, and in many ways they are, but they also bounce back quickly.

Maybe part of it is a consequence of the risks of honey, which can actually spawn camp infants with botulism. But it seems that fear spread to everything.

The Hygiene Hypothesis has been around for a long time.

It will be interesting to see what happens with allergies for those who were born in the 2020-2023 timeframe.

I grew up in a smoking house. We didn't have any house cleaners. We wore our shoes in the house. I spent my childhood outdoors playing in the dirt. When we were thirsty we drank garden hose water or went inside for some Kool-Aid.

No allergies.