Allergies

[jaja111]

Let us not forget the influence of an ever growing litigious society. Regarding the PBJ's in school, the administrators may in fact be seeking to absolve themselves from liability if that one percent kid gets a whiff of Peter Pan in the lunch room. But yes, the numbers in kids are going up, supposedly having doubled in the last 40 years. Spooky.

[severine]

There are some who link prophylactic use of antibiotics during delivery (birth) for those who are GBS+ (a kind of bacteria that can be in the colon and, in rare cases, can cause serious illness in newborns--so many doctors just have all their GBS+ patients pumped with IV antibiotics while in labor as a preventative) to a higher incidence of peanut allergies. Killing off the good bacteria in the gut when first exposed to the world could be causing some of this mayhem. We had a serious discussion about this with our pediatrician when I chose to go against the grain and not have the antibiotics with my son. We had to agree to 48 hrs observation post-delivery, but he was cool with it. And since birth, he has been healthier than his older sister, with whom I did have the prophylactic antibiotics.

Incidentally, this practice came into play in the early 90s, and the rise in peanut allergies came around the same time.

[bigbog]

Im not saying that these thigs are made up, just wondering where they came from, as I never noticed it at all growing up.

Personal guess is...it's involving Preservatives and a shelf-life in some foods. In my case, single episode, was in the components of fast food junk from the machines....having a shelf-life...ie "spoiled" = my guess. One time I had a reaction was with eating fast snack junk from machine junk on a 3rd shift..@~34yo. Made it through but my aircolumn closed up a good amount after having one of those bars with peanuts, coconuts, chocolate + ~1000 preservatives. Ten minutes after....slowly regained full breathing. Was scary at first since only issues I knew of having were ragweed. Anti-histamines an decongenstants keep me in great shape, but for 3-5min....Whew.