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For a bit of extra anecdotal evidence - in Israel a common easily-digested semi-junk food is Bamba, peanut puffs. Rates of peanut allergy are very low there. W
by azernik 9y ago
For a bit of extra anecdotal evidence - in Israel a common easily-digested semi-junk food is Bamba, peanut puffs. Rates of peanut allergy are very low there.
What you have instead is milk allergies, and briefly doctors recommended delaying introducing milk to infants. (This advice has also changed.)
- dragonwriter 9y agoThat's actually, according to something I read a while back (sorry, don't remember the source), not just an extra anecdote, it's the observed fact which motivated the study that led to the AAP changing it's recommendation.
- compsciphd 9y agowith that said, sesame is also a huge product in Israel (techina, chummus....) and rates of allergies to it are higher than average. With that said, sesame is not something little kids are going to be eating as much of or creating dust in the air.
- dvirsky 9y agoIsraeli here - not sure how common it is, but sweet tahini (with honey usually) is a toddler favorite, and young kids also eat hummus a lot. Not sure it's as popular as Bamba, but pretty commonplace.
- compsciphd 9y agoright, but its not exposed in the same way. I agree that chummus is a staple (with pita), just that bamba produces dust / stickiness on fingers in a way sesame based dishes don't. i.e. even if not eating it, one probably have low level of exposure to it.