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Found my baby book from 1969. According to the book, my mom and I spent 2 weeks in the hospital before coming home. No medical problems.
The book also had the piece of construction paper with my bus number and animal from when I was in kindergarten. They started us off with an animal shape in kindergarten. The paper was pinned to students' shirts using a "straight pin"! Imagine today's schools giving children a straight pin.
Nowadays you'll be in bigger trouble bringing a peanut onto a school campus than you would be bringing a bag of cocaine. Where did all the peanut allergies come from anyway?
Nowadays you'll be in bigger trouble bringing a peanut onto a school campus than you would be bringing a bag of cocaine. Where did all the peanut allergies come from anyway?
We don't know where they came from, but they have increased quite a lot.
There are some hypotheses:
1. The hygiene hypothesis
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kids who grow up on farms have fewer allergies? Actually yes! Believe it or not, city living is much cleaner than farm life. Youngsters who grow up on farms are 30-50% less likely to develop allergies and asthma compared their urban cousins. Despite city pollution and grime, rural households have more “good germs” found in bacteria-laden mattresses and microbe-laced bedrooms helping kids develop resistance to allergies and asthma
2. The way modern nuts are processed.
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Most nuts these days are roasted. Back in the day, blanching, boiling, and raw consumption of nuts was more common. Dry-roasting at high temperatures appears to degrade the carcinogenic aflatoxins found in peanuts, which is something we DO want to do. However, roasting peanuts changes the sugar and makes the protein more stable to digestion, and easier for the immune system to attack thus making them more allergenic. Interestingly, Asians predominantly eat boiled peanuts, and peanut allergies are much less common among Asian populations.
Found my baby book from 1969. According to the book, my mom and I spent 2 weeks in the hospital before coming home. No medical problems.
The book also had the piece of construction paper with my bus number and animal from when I was in kindergarten. They started us off with an animal shape in kindergarten. The paper was pinned to students' shirts using a "straight pin"! Imagine today's schools giving children a straight pin.
Did your mom have a C-section? I did my clinical rotation in obstetrics in 1969, and staying two weeks was unheard of.
There are some hypotheses:
1. The hygiene hypothesis
2. The way modern nuts are processed.
Our oldest has dairy, egg, peanut and tree nut allergies ( he is 8) and we see an allergist who treats his food allergies every 6 months down at Allergy Associates in La Crosse Wisconsin. And yes no one really knows why the big increase. I have read a lot about the hygiene thoughts.....but likely a large variety of factors.
Nowadays you'll be in bigger trouble bringing a peanut onto a school campus than you would be bringing a bag of cocaine. Where did all the peanut allergies come from anyway?
One school district in our region is peanut free....but most are peanut safe. Our school with our 8 yr old who has peanut, egg, dairy allergies is peanut safe. We see a specialist and is tested every 6 months and also take food drops. Peanuts and peanut butter are allowed from the outside in our school, except for his room which at the beginning of the school year the teacher asks parents not to bring in peanut snacks for the classroom. Now, anyone can eat peanut products in the lunchroom, except at the large table where he sits which is peanut free. Each kid is very different in terms of their sensitivity....but for our child this solution has been approved by our allergist.
I spent 3 hours in with my last child (vaginal delivery, not a scratch, perfectly healthy baby), it was bliss. Two weeks I would've gone insane. I couldn't even stand the 2 nights with my first!
Found my baby book from 1969. According to the book, my mom and I spent 2 weeks in the hospital before coming home. No medical problems.
That would have been VERY unusual. Even in the 40's and 50's when mothers were knocked out for delivery the usual stay was a few days unless there was a C-section or the mother/baby had problems.
I was in the hospital for a week and that was the early 90s.
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