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jbjbjbjb ◴[] No.45662157[source]
In my experience there’s still much more to this. I’m sure it helps at population level like the article describes but it’s not foolproof. For our first we were feeding nuts early and still developed an allergy to all nuts. Our second didn’t get nuts until much later and he’s fine. There’s more to the story than timing, notably my first has eczema and asthma too so there’s that atopic march.
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1. jgalt212 ◴[] No.45662283[source]
Allergy rate decreases with birth order. Of course, that's at the population level and probably not strong enough effect to notice if you only poll a dozen parents you know.
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2. taeric ◴[] No.45662415[source]
As the 3rd child that had more allergies than I can really make sense of, I'm curious on this. Any recommended studies to read up on this?