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Which part sounds insane? Living with a deadly allergy for the rest of one's life is no fun at all. A large part of social life is eating together in various l
by kqr 1y ago
Which part sounds insane?
Living with a deadly allergy for the rest of one's life is no fun at all. A large part of social life is eating together in various locations where the allergen may not be so strictly controlled. Either one faces an easy death weekly or one opts out of many social activities. It is awful, and not wanting that for one's child seems natural to me, not insane.
I deliberately expose my child to a lot of things I want them to have in their life: climbing, swimming, the game of go, Unix command-lines, Newton's laws, musical instruments, etc. Doesn't seem odd to add peanuts to the list. (Well, for us it is logistically inconvenient because another member of the household has a deadly allergy, but if it weren't for that it would be sensiblre.) Not insane either.
Is it the idea of exposure leading to lower prevalence that sounds insane? That's been relatively strongly established in randomised trials. Not insane.
- gambiting 1y ago>>Which part sounds insane? The "my child developed a peanut allergy because I didn't feed her peanuts, so I recommend feeding your child peanuts every day to increase exposure" part. Not that the science behind it doesn't support the fact that exposure reduces a chance of developing an allergy - but to go from there to "feed your child peanuts every day" is the insane part. >>Living with a deadly allergy for the rest of one's life is no fun at all. You are making an emotional argument where one doesn't need to be made - we all understand that deadly allergies are no joke.