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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: 0s | source
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ErikCorry ◴[20 Oct 25 18:57 UTC] No.45647737[source]▶
Eating peanuts reduces allergies, but getting peanuts on your skin increases allergies.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167491...

Or maybe in your lungs.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8429226/#R7

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1. nkingsy ◴[21 Oct 25 15:22 UTC] No.45656947[source]▶
So you’re saying I should’ve eaten the cat that lived in my apartment when I was a baby?
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2. random3 ◴[21 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45657101[source]▶
:)))
3. modeless ◴[22 Oct 25 00:26 UTC] No.45663561[source]▶
It's possible that if you had more cat dander in your mouth when you were a baby that you wouldn't have developed an allergy. Or, more likely, if you had more mouth exposure to other natural microbes that occur outdoors and around animals, then you would have fewer allergies overall. That is well supported by the evidence.