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not sure why this is news. the babies are given "doses of peanut powder each day for at least two years".. "world-first peanut allergy treatment".. thats like

not sure why this is news. the babies are given "doses of peanut powder each day for at least two years".. "world-first peanut allergy treatment".. thats like saying milk is a "treatment" to get your daily calcium. all theyre doing is feeding them peanut butter so their bodies get used to it from an early age. israel has a lower peanut allergy per capita because the most popular snack there is bamba (peanut snack), any parent can do the same by offering more food variety to their children https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213219820308254#:~:text=They%20found%20a%20lower%20prevalence,peanuts%20in%20the%20Israeli%20group https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22132....

MattGaiser 2y ago
If children regularly suffered from calcium deficiency and were suffering ever increasing rates of calcium deficiency, it would also be news. This is a new and novel approach that few are presently doing deliberately.
- soco 2y ago
  Following the doctor's advice, I've been given as a kid regularly a strawberry (or pieces, can't remember) to overcome my strawberry allergy. It worked fine, now I have zero troubles with them. I haven't researched how many allergies can be addressed this way, but for my sample size of one it just worked as the doctor said.
nervousvarun 2y ago
It's news because this is a treatment for a condition that kills people. A few hundred or so people a year in the US alone: https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergies/food-allergy/peanut/how-many-people-die-each-year-from-peanut-allergies.htm https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergi...
quitit 2y ago
>not sure why this is news. The babies being given the treatment are allergic to peanuts. This is the opposite approach to recommendations, including in Israel. > israel has a lower peanut allergy per capita because the most popular snack there is bamba Infant allergy rates are similar in Israel, however a specific dip in peanut allergies in Israel was a motivating factor for looking into this approach. >any parent can do the same by offering more food variety to their children This can kill an infant with a peanut allergy. The science on infant allergy is far ahead of randomly experimenting with your child. Sources: https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(20)30825-4/abstract https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(20)30825-... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8
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MattGaiser 2y ago

If children regularly suffered from calcium deficiency and were suffering ever increasing rates of calcium deficiency, it would also be news. This is a new and novel approach that few are presently doing deliberately.

soco 2y ago
Following the doctor's advice, I've been given as a kid regularly a strawberry (or pieces, can't remember) to overcome my strawberry allergy. It worked fine, now I have zero troubles with them. I haven't researched how many allergies can be addressed this way, but for my sample size of one it just worked as the doctor said.

nervousvarun 2y ago

It's news because this is a treatment for a condition that kills people. A few hundred or so people a year in the US alone: https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergies/food-allergy/peanut/how-many-people-die-each-year-from-peanut-allergies.htm https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/allergi...

quitit 2y ago

>not sure why this is news. The babies being given the treatment are allergic to peanuts. This is the opposite approach to recommendations, including in Israel. > israel has a lower peanut allergy per capita because the most popular snack there is bamba Infant allergy rates are similar in Israel, however a specific dip in peanut allergies in Israel was a motivating factor for looking into this approach. >any parent can do the same by offering more food variety to their children This can kill an infant with a peanut allergy. The science on infant allergy is far ahead of randomly experimenting with your child. Sources: https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(20)30825-4/abstract https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(20)30825-... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8

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