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This was on the news this morning...

BBC News - Peanut allergy treatment 'a success'

Proof that introducing small doses of peanuts to kids who might be at high risk of Peanut allergies reduces their risk of developing allergies.

Hardly news. I've believed this to be the case for years. It's not just peanuts, but all sorts of things. There seems o be a rapidly growing intensity of people coming up with allergies to certain things, when they never seemed to exist before. This increase seems to tally with the era of nannying kids & wrapping them in cotton wool from the outside world - the day & age of "Health & Safety Gone Maaaad!!". It is a known fact that if you keep them protected in a sterile environment then their bodies will never develop the natural Immune System it needs. Diseases like measles & chickenpox, which present themselves as a minor inconvenience during childhood can become life threatening in later life.

I know that viruses & allergies are not quite the same thing, but surely the way the body deals with them has to work on a similar basis.

I agree. It is a wonder that anyone survives childhood anymore and the older we get the more intolerant some of my friends get to whatever the latest fad is. They still eat it, of course, they just complain about what it does to them...lol

Four Part, you got it right.

So..........if considering the age range on this site.....we believe this way, regarding over cleanliness, why is there a rise in allergies and related type ailments ?

Assuming we all brought our children up with the same ideas that we espouse here.



(Espouse ? Nice one Bruv)

The problem with allergies is that they work both ways. So continued exposure can eventually triggered a previously undetected allergic reaction.

Example. I am allergic to pepper. (Species: piper Nigrum) White pepper, Black pepper, even the green stage.

I never had a problem when I was young. I started reacting to it some thirty years ago. The reaction was mild originally, and at first it was just some discomfort and swelling around my eyes an hour or so after dinner. It took a long time to figure out what was going on. Now the reaction is much quicker and more severe, to the point of me have to take an antihistamine after consumption. And I love pepper.

(On the positive side, I now think that if I desired to end it all, I could do so by ordering Steak au Poivre at the local chop house. )

The point is, that if a child is sensitive to something now, and such a regimen was prescribed, could the allergy return in later years?

And actually, does said sensitivity in early years necessarily lead to a severe allergy in later years.

They still have a long way to go on such studies.

LarsMac;1474746 wrote: The problem with allergies is that they work both ways. So continued exposure can eventually triggered a previously undetected allergic reaction.

Example. I am allergic to pepper. (Species: piper Nigrum) White pepper, Black pepper, even the green stage.

I never had a problem when I was young. I started reacting to it some thirty years ago. The reaction was mild originally, and at first it was just some discomfort and swelling around my eyes an hour or so after dinner. It took a long time to figure out what was going on. Now the reaction is much quicker and more severe, to the point of me have to take an antihistamine after consumption. And I love pepper.

(On the positive side, I now think that if I desired to end it all, I could do so by ordering Steak au Poivre at the local chop house. )

The point is, that if a child is sensitive to something now, and such a regimen was prescribed, could the allergy return in later years?

And actually, does said sensitivity in early years necessarily lead to a severe allergy in later years.

They still have a long way to go on such studies.
My grandson had an allergy to peanuts and a couple of other food items when he was a toddler...we're talkin' the epi-pen went everywhere with them. Five years later he got tested again and got the all clear.

Go figure. Perhaps his system developed slower and perhaps as we get older our systems start eroding.