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