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.
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 thing I'm a bit curious about is how the research on peanut allergies leading to the sort of uhhh... cynic's common sense take ("expose em early and they'll be fine") is something that we only got to in 2015. Various allergies are a decently big thing in many parts of the world, and it feels almost anticlimactic that the dumb guy take here just applied, and we didn't get to that.
Maybe someone has some more details about any basis for the original guidelines
I think a lot of the delay is it took a while for people to realise there was a problem. The perhaps excessive hygiene thing didn't really get going till the 1960s and so you didn't really see the rise in allergies till a couple of decades after, then maybe scientists started figuring it like in the 90s and then it takes a while to get proven enough to recommend to parents?