For decades, as food allergy rates climbed, experts recommended that parents avoid exposing their infants to common allergens.
“We’re talking about the prevention of a potentially deadly, life-changing diagnosis,” said Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a pediatrician at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, who was not involved with the study. “This is real world data of how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
The article never points out that parents who ignored pediatricians and public health recommendations (prior to 2017) and did the obvious thing (gradually introduce young humans to a wide range of foods that they might be expected to consume as older humans) did better by their kids.
Meanwhile, will we ever see a retraction of the advice that saliva-soaked face rags kept 2-year-olds safe from aerosol viruses that killed Americans at a median age of 82?
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> Peanut oil as an adjuvant in vaccines was primarily used in the 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in influenza vaccines such as those formulated with Adjuvant 65-4 developed by Merck. Published studies from 1966 and 1975 document its use and immune response benefits. However, peanut oil adjuvants caused local reactions and concerns about safety, leading to their discontinuation.
Phil,
In Sweden they did a study where they deliberately exposed children with peanut allergies to aerosolized peanuts under the supervision of an anesthesiologist. A very small minority had any reaction at all, none had anaphylaxis. That entire panic was just AWFLs using their children to control people. (Imagine that!)