A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.
Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months. The rate of peanut allergies in children ages 0 to 3 fell by more than 27% after guidance for high-risk kids was first issued in 2015, and by more than 40% after the recommendations were expanded in 2017.
There was a science versus podcast on this a few years ago. One of the ideas was that if a child makes contact with peanuts through skin prior to eating it, then they’re likely to have an allergy. That always confused me. Anyone have any more information on this?
i would think the more allergic you are the more sensitive to peanuts touching the skin, instead of a person only getting a reaction from eating it. if you have chronic allergies to something, you can have your IGE levels checked, although its not part of a normal test. anything over 1000(concentration of IGE levels) puts you susceptible for allergic rhinitis, asthma or atopic dermatitis, the higher it is, the more severe the “trifecta of allergy is”.
and also susceptible to allergens too of the skin. food specific might be very different though.
its only when its >2000 its a different disease altogether( a very rare immune-allergy disease)_