Consumption of peanuts might be an effective way to prevent peanut allergy. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Peanut allergy is a usual and severe food allergy that can result in a deadly allergic reaction. A regular cited hypothesis is that kids who avoid exposure to peanuts has a reduced risk of becoming allergic, but new research seem to indicate that early consumption can instead help build up a resistance to it.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The effect remains even if the children refrains from eating peanuts for 12 months according to a follow-up study that builds on another study published last year.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2016/03/07/intag-av-jordnotter-gav-effektivt-skydd-mot-jordnotsallergi/"]Source (Swedish)[/URL] [URL="http://allergicliving.com/2016/03/04/leap-on-study-shows-childrens-resistance-to-peanut-allergy-persists-without-consumption/"]Source2 (English)[/URL] [URL="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850#t=abstract"]Study[/URL] [URL="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1514209"]Study2 (Follow-up)[/URL] Peanuts are delicious. Also, don't stuff your or other peoples allergic children full of peanuts without talking to a doctor first.

Who would have thought you actually have to use your immune system in order for it to develop properly? What a novel idea. My immune system is compromised for a similar reason. I have severe seasonal allergies because I never ate local honey and didn't go outside much as a child so now my immune system has no resistance to the plants I'm surrounded by in my everyday life and identifies their pollen as a threat. I always figured it would be a similar situation with food allergies.

Isn't this also how you treat pollen allergies? by injecting small doses containing the extracts of the allergen under the skin

Isn't this the case with a lot of allergies?

Except we currently don't know the causes nor have any permanent cures for allergies. It's not the same process as something like vaccines. Everything up until now is just hypothesis.

[QUOTE=Petrussen;49884970]Isn't this also how you treat pollen allergies? by injecting small doses containing the extracts of the allergen under the skin[/QUOTE] Yes but it's not quite the same thing. When you have pollen allergy you can harden yourself and build up a tolerance to pollen by injecting it, this study suggests that if you eat peanuts you develop a resistance to becoming allergic in the first place.

Peanuts, honey, whatever, who cares. The real question is, can I shoot myself in non vital parts of the body to eventually develop an immunity to bullets?

Makes more than obvious sense lol. I barely get sick because I spend my days in a cold ass dusty room playing games even in the coldest days. When I put the car in the garage, I'll just open the doors wearing a tshirt in plain winter. Meanwhile, my friends get sick from having the AC on or by just catching a bit of cold. [editline]7th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Thunderbolt;49885058]Peanuts, honey, whatever, who cares. The real question is, can I shoot myself in non vital parts of the body to eventually develop an immunity to bullets?[/QUOTE] By this logic, suicide attempters should be imprevious to death :v:

Certainly not the case for dogs and cats with me. I've been around cats so much as a child that they left permanent rashes on my face before my parents got rid of ours

[QUOTE=Petrussen;49884970]Isn't this also how you treat pollen allergies? by injecting small doses containing the extracts of the allergen under the skin[/QUOTE] Either injections or under the tongue work, I've been doing those for some amount of years and I'm most certainly better off now than I was before treatment.

[QUOTE=Petrussen;49884970]Isn't this also how you treat pollen allergies? by injecting small doses containing the extracts of the allergen under the skin[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if it is any more, my dad had this treatment when I was little because he had severe allergies and it involved like a couple rounds of a dozen shots, it must have worked though because he's only still badly allergic to bees and poison ivy I remember him saying they don't do that anymore because it has bad side effects

Thanks to this article I see many unnecessary life threatening allergic reactions from "good willed" parents, siblings, friends and extended family who see this as open grounds to sneak nuts/legumes into meals so as to improve their lives. This is coming from a kid loved smooth and nutty peanut butter as a kid and now requires immediate epinephrine if it's consumed. If you know anyone who has these allergies, I beg you to go to consult with an immunologist before acting on this. After reading the abstract of the paper it seems disingenuous that over 5years where a baby immunologically develops that the toddlers that show a negative reaction have 13.7%(avoidance)/1.9%(consumption) [7.2x (avoid/cons)], but those that have have a positive allergic reaction 35.3%(avoidance)/10.6%(consumption) [3.3x]. This leads me to ask, where is the story?

My brother had a serious allergy to fire ants. And guinea pigs too... Alone it wasn't bad but if he got bit by and ant and then held a guinea pig? Well he did that once... [I]once.[/I] Almost died. Can't treat the pig allergy, but the ant allergy was treated across 5 years with periodic injections. Now he's extremely resistant to ant venom.

[QUOTE=Karmah;49885155]Certainly not the case for dogs and cats with me. I've been around cats so much as a child that they left permanent rashes on my face before my parents got rid of ours[/QUOTE] Weird, I got over my cat allergy after spending about 4 years around them, I even got my own cat now. Still allergic to dogs even though I've been around them for much longer.

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;49885058]Peanuts, honey, whatever, who cares. The real question is, can I shoot myself in non vital parts of the body to eventually develop an immunity to bullets?[/QUOTE] Yes. You have to start with small calibers and work your way up.

Makes sense. In Israel, the rates of peanut allergies are really low because we start feeding them a peanut snack from 7/8 months on. NPR did a great story on it. [URL="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/feeding-babies-foods-with-peanuts-appears-to-prevent-allergies"]http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/feeding-babies-foods-with-peanuts-appears-to-prevent-allergies[/URL]

Would this work for a deadly latex/peach allergy?

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;49885474]My brother had a serious allergy to fire ants. And guinea pigs too... Alone it wasn't bad but if he got bit by and ant and then held a guinea pig? Well he did that once... [I]once.[/I] Almost died. Can't treat the pig allergy, but the ant allergy was treated across 5 years with periodic injections. Now he's extremely resistant to ant venom.[/QUOTE] Wut? I get fire ants but I have never heard of a violent reaction to let dander

If my parents tried this, they would have ended up with a dead child. It's easier to just avoid the food than build up a tolerance to not being able to breathe.

Rich white kids get it more and the Chinese get it less. Kinda obvious... [url]http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db121.htm[/url]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;49885464]Thanks to this article I see many unnecessary life threatening allergic reactions from "good willed" parents, siblings, friends and extended family who see this as open grounds to sneak nuts/legumes into meals so as to improve their lives. This is coming from a kid loved smooth and nutty peanut butter as a kid and now requires immediate epinephrine if it's consumed. If you know anyone who has these allergies, I beg you to go to consult with an immunologist before acting on this. After reading the abstract of the paper it seems disingenuous that over 5years where a baby immunologically develops that the toddlers that show a negative reaction have 13.7%(avoidance)/1.9%(consumption) [7.2x (avoid/cons)], but those that have have a positive allergic reaction 35.3%(avoidance)/10.6%(consumption) [3.3x]. This leads me to ask, where is the story?[/QUOTE] Yes you should definitely not sneak peanuts into your allergic kids food like that. In the article it just says that when the children were 6 years old 18.6% of the ones who didn't eat or get exposed to peanuts got allergic while only 4.8% of the ones who ate peanuts got allergic. I didn't bother to look at the study because Dagens Medicin is generally trustworthy but if what you are saying is correct then something's up. I will check the study later.

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;49885086]Meanwhile, my friends get sick from having the AC on or by just catching a bit of cold.[/QUOTE] having the ac on can't just make you sick though. why do people in america think cold can infect you with a virus it's on the same level as koreans thinking indoor fans can kill you.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;49886338]having the ac on can't just make you sick though. why do people in america think cold can infect you with a virus it's on the same level as koreans thinking indoor fans can kill you.[/QUOTE] The AC itself may not cause it but it can increase the chance of getting it because your body can't handle the cold.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;49886338]having the ac on can't just make you sick though. why do people in america think cold can infect you with a virus it's on the same level as koreans thinking indoor fans can kill you.[/QUOTE] It's due to temperature shock or whatever its called. You get to like 23º celsius inside or a bit more, and then you move out to like 10º at best during the night with chill winds in the mix, and I guess they get sick that way. They also find odd how I walk around with one sweater, when they got a fuckton of clothes and scarves. I dunno man, I just can't use a shitload of clothes. The other day I went to the mall in a tshirt during one hell of a cold night, and I came out of it sweating bullets.

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;49885058]Peanuts, honey, whatever, who cares. The real question is, can I shoot myself in non vital parts of the body to eventually develop an immunity to bullets?[/QUOTE] This is the path to immortality

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;49886592]It's due to temperature shock or whatever its called. You get to like 23º celsius inside or a bit more, and then you move out to like 10º at best during the night with chill winds in the mix, and I guess they get sick that way. They also find odd how I walk around with one sweater, when they got a fuckton of clothes and scarves. I dunno man, I just can't use a shitload of clothes. The other day I went to the mall in a tshirt during one hell of a cold night, and I came out of it sweating bullets.[/QUOTE] Occasionally there's people like that, I have a friend who didn't seem very fazed being shitless for a few moments during a blizzard in Serra da Estrela with negative temperatures I was dying if I merely took my gloves off

[QUOTE=Sableye;49885704]Wut? I get fire ants but I have never heard of a violent reaction to let dander[/QUOTE] Here's the thing that threw everyone at the allergy clinic for a loop though. On their own, each allergy had an average reaction. But if both were triggered within a day of each other, like if he got stung and then held the neighbor's guinea pig a day later, he had a seriously violent reaction. They didn't believe us until they tested for it exactly how we described it.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;49886338]having the ac on can't just make you sick though. why do people in america think cold can infect you with a virus it's on the same level as koreans thinking indoor fans can kill you.[/QUOTE] It really is, though. Being cold inhibits your immune system pretty roughly, making you much more susceptible.

My dad has shown me several news articles all stating the same thing, the earliest from 1970, all claiming to be the first to discover this. Why does this keep cropping up in the news and disappearing? Is there money in treating peanut allergies or something?

[QUOTE=Ardosos;49895439]My dad has shown me several news articles all stating the same thing, the earliest from 1970, all claiming to be the first to discover this. Why does this keep cropping up in the news and disappearing? Is there money in treating peanut allergies or something?[/QUOTE] It is all a plot to get every household to own at minimum of 5 epipens!