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

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forgotoldacc ◴[21 Oct 25 05:20 UTC] No.45652698[source]▶
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.

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supportengineer ◴[21 Oct 25 07:05 UTC] No.45653220[source]▶
I have a great example of this. For our first kid, we had created a Sterile Field in our kitchen for pacifiers, baby bottles, etc. The sanctity of the Sterile Field was never violated. We would wash things by hand and then BOIL them and place them into the Sterile Field. This kid is allergic to tree nuts and a few other things.

For baby number 2, soap and water is enough. There's no time for Sterile Field nonsense. This kid isn't allergic to anything.

There was a local mom who had 4 thriving kids. When their baby dropped the pacifier in the dirt, it just got brushed off and handed back to the baby. I don't think those kids had any allergies.

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IanCal ◴[21 Oct 25 07:42 UTC] No.45653422[source]▶
For what it’s worth I was raised like kid 2 and have a bunch of annoying allergies. It’s far too messy to look at individual cases.
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ch4s3 ◴[21 Oct 25 08:19 UTC] No.45653636[source]▶
Same. I grew up on a farm and was constantly outside and around dogs and horses. I need allergy shots as an adult.
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wink ◴[21 Oct 25 13:51 UTC] No.45655802[source]▶
I've not seen a lot of research about how allergies develop as you get older.

For me, as a kid: very, very allergic to cats, kinda allergic to many food items and a little to horse hair (only noticable when shedding in the spring)

As a young adult: Only 2-3 food allergies remain, cats still strong, hayfever starts.

Then I took some shots against the hayfever for 2-3 years, and the cat thing has mostly improved and the hayfever is basically gone. So only 2-3 food items remain.

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1. SAI_Peregrinus ◴[21 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45657331[source]▶
As an adult I developed an allergic contact dermatitis reaction to some sulfates (sodium lauryl sulfate definitely, sodium laureth sulfate definitely, and something in raw onion juice) after a bad burn on one of my fingers. Probably due to exposure while it was healing, since it's in a lot of soaps like Dawn have one or more of the two. Self-testing to find a soap that didn't blister my hand and then to narrow down which ingredients caused the reaction was a long & unpleasant process. So it's definitely possible to develop new allergies as an adult, as well as to lose existing allergies.