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    JCM9 ◴[] No.45661908[source]
    A lot of science supports the idea that helicopter hyper-parenting is hurting kids by having them grow up in an environment that’s too sterile. Let your kids go outside and roll around in the mud a bit. God forbid they lick the floor. Science says it’s good for them!
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    1. eweise ◴[] No.45662043[source]
    Can't remember a single kid with a peanut allergy growing up in the 70s.
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    2. jpollock ◴[] No.45662068[source]
    I had friends with nut allergies in the 80s.

    Before the epipen, I imagine the mortality rate would be pretty high, and it didn't arrive on the market until 1983.

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    3. kgwxd ◴[] No.45662092[source]
    Lumped in with the SIDS batch.
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    4. guestbest ◴[] No.45662302[source]
    They probably weren’t allowed around you if you were eating peanut butter. Did you eat a lot of peanut butter growing up?
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    5. kakacik ◴[] No.45662584[source]
    I grew up in communist bloc, finely oppressed by russians with their military bases all around, ready for nuclear WWIII that never came.

    Peanut butter isn't something I ever saw before being adult and well into 90s, it simply wasn't a thing, I guess evil capitalist invention with the only goal to subvert our fine communistic paradise, like ie Star wars movies. Raw peanuts were frequent though, I guess one of very few things that actually made it through very badly functioning central planning and wasnt stolen by aparatchicks and collaborants for themselves. Never ever met a single kid having any sort of peanut allergy during growing up, never knew its a thing. I recall one or two with asthma, hay fever and thats it. But same could be said about any form of mental diseases/issues for whatever reason, anxiety, adhd variants and so on... either ignored, undiagnosed or really on much lower levels, dont know.

    Kid misbehaving? A fine smack or some other physical punishment settled things at least in primary school. Then things started to change a bit till they overcorrected these days.

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    6. casey2 ◴[] No.45662736[source]
    This is such a strange modern take. Parents didn't "allow" their children around others. Unless they were royalty most wouldn't spend more than 40 minutes a day with their parents. We don't see the that concept coming to American until the late 80s, early 90s in affluent neighborhoods to socially distinguish themselves from "ghetto" families
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    7. codezero ◴[] No.45663598{3}[source]
    not true, and although this is anecdata, it's worth mentioning. I had a friend who wasn't allowed to spend the night in the 80s because my parents let me keep my 410 shotgun under my bed (I didn't have any ammunition).
    8. dyauspitr ◴[] No.45664345[source]
    Almost literally, no one in Indian schools have a peanut allergy.
    9. tnias23 ◴[] No.45664397[source]
    Prior to the EpiPen, people carried the Ana-Kit. It became commercially available in 1963 and was a little kit containing a syringe pre-loaded with epinephrine, antihistamine tablet(s?), and a tourniquet.

    People in anaphylactic shock sometimes (often?) need more than one dose, and antihistamine should be taken asap. The epinephrine just bridges the gap until the antihistamine kicks in.

    I liked the Ana-kit because the syringe had 2 doses in it (you turned the plunger 90° for the second dose) and the antihistamine. It was much cheaper, and it was pretty easy—- just pull off the needle cap, stick your thigh to the hilt, and press the plunger.

    Despite the relative ease of autoinjectors like EpiPen, I was pretty upset when Ana-kit was discontinued and I had to start carrying EpiPens. That’s why I always get the generic 2-pack prescribed and keep it in a ziplock bag with a couple Benadryls.

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    10. spicyusername ◴[] No.45664537[source]
    To what do you attribute the apparent increase?
    11. eru ◴[] No.45665310{3}[source]
    The 'Zappelphilip' (fidgeting Philip) stereotype is pretty old in at least Germany. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

    So stuff like ADHD symptoms were definitely not unheard of.

    12. roguecoder ◴[] No.45670899[source]
    It is absolutely amazing to me that we now know how SIDs works. And incredibly tragic that the prevalence in the eighties was because so many more parents smoked in the house.

    We think of smoking as something that kills by eventually causing cancer, but it is much worse.

    13. shemtay ◴[] No.45672271{3}[source]
    why the tourniquet?
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    14. jdeibele ◴[] No.45672687{4}[source]
    I was curious about that myself.

    "To slow absorption of injected antigens (e.g., insect stings), a tourniquet may be placed proximal to the injection site. "

    https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2003/1001/p1325.html

    The article says that tourniquets are no longer recommended. It doesn't seem like a tourniquet would be of any help if you ingested something but reasonable for insect stings. Anyone who has taken a first aid course gets warned multiple times about the danger of leaving a tourniquet on too long but maybe random people aren't aware of it.