Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says

Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by raverbashing on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:13AM (#35198091)

Exactly

How in tarnation did anyone think keeping babies away from the allergens would help with allergies is beyond me

Which countries has the least amount of peanut allergies? Countries where people give it without much concern

Thanks to these misguided though there are people severely allergic to peanuts

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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by dragonwriter on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:42AM (#35198552)

> How in tarnation did anyone think keeping babies away from the allergens would help with allergies is beyond me

No one, AFAIK, thought it would reduce the rates of people developing allergies.

What people thought was that it would reduce the rates of people having dangerous allergic reactions as infants (which it does) and that the longer term effects would not be so negative as to outweigh that benefit (which seems, in the case of certain allergens – particularly peanuts – to very much not be the case.)

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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by mrpopo on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:45AM (#35198600)

Not saying that you're wrong, but your line of reasoning is incorrect. It could also have been because all the people with peanut allergies have died and the people surviving all have some sort of genetic advantage against peanut allergy.

Again, the above reasoning is wrong but not completely baseless.

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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by raverbashing on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:59PM (#35199745)

I see what you mean, I'm not so sure if there's a genetic connection to allergies (specific to allergies, not intolerances, which are a different thing) and/or how strong it is relating to different elements

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