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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 o

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > 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.)
• mrpopo 4y ago
  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.
  • raverbashing 4y ago
    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