Posted on 09/26/2014 8:28:06 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Giovanni was one of the 6 million children in the United States who suffer from food allergies, an alarming number that has nearly tripled in the past two decades. Dr. Martin Blaser, a microbiologist and professor at New York University, is working tirelessly on groundbreaking research into this dramatic spike in food allergies. His hypothesis is that exposure to antibiotics early in life is diminishing positive gut bacteria and thus weakening children's immune systems, making them more susceptible to allergies. Blaser warns parents: "Antibiotics are not free, they do have a cost. And it is not just monetary but in the development of the immunity in children."
Blaser’s theory has been tested on young mice. They were fed a strong dose of antibiotics, and soon after their immune system changed and they developed a peanut allergy. They were then given the missing positive bacteria, and the results were astounding: The allergy was gone!
While his research is still a work in progress, the results so far are positive and could potentially lead to a cure for food allergies.
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Yes, and they could be cause by picky eating or by eating Michelle Obama’s crap food diet.
Interesting theory, and plausible. There is some reason all these kids suddenly have every allergy under the sun these day. When I was growing up (yes, anecdotal) I never heard about such allergies, now every third kid has some food malady.
at least some of it is parental neurosis
“gluten free” is the new “organic food”
I always fed my kids live yogurt. Especially after antibiotics. None of them have food allergies.
They are accepting Pro-biotics and these regimens are helping many.
I’ve heard that is a good idea. Live yogurt is supposed to cure yeast infections also, or so I’ve heard.
I switched to raw milk and raw yogurt about 2 years ago.
Six weeks after changing, my allergies virtually disappeared.
I was treated for h pylori causing stomach ulcers. I was told to eat yogurt among other things to help pevent reoccurrence.
I do not believe this one whit. When my son was very young he suffered from and ear infection and was on antibiotics so repeatedly that he grew a tongue mold. He was tested and had a dust allergy. All books out of his room, one stuffed animal, make sure no mold on windowsills. His infection went away, he outgrew the dust allergy, and by the time he was eight he was constantly on his knees in the dirt. As an adult, he has no allergies.
My granddaughter had an infection on her nose as a toddler. She was on repeated antibiotics until finally a surgery was done which removed a small hair, apparently a sort of birth defect. She is five now and has no allergies.
I was wondering the other day, though, with all the peanut products in Thai food, do Thai children ever have peanut allergies?
I am sure that is true, that antibiotics changed their gut biome. But not only antibiotics - other things do this too, like a change of diet. I always loved and enjoyed macadamia nuts my entire life. We used to have a place in Hawaii.
After going fairly paleo and primal for about three years, all of a sudden I could no longer eat macadamia nuts. I only tried it twice, because the reaction was so severe. My lips swelled, I got dizzy and nauseous, I could barely walk, and felt very ill. I thought the first time that it was THAT BATCH of nuts. Tried it one more time with a bag someone else was eating with no ill effects, and by the second nut all the symptoms returned. My doctor toLd me my reaction was on my way to anaphylactic and I should be careful to avoid macadamias from now on. :(
It’s all in the gut bacteria. Different ones do different things. Most of us IS NOT US.
I do not believe this one whit. When my son was very young he suffered from and ear infection and was on antibiotics so repeatedly that he grew a tongue mold. He was tested and had a dust allergy. All books out of his room, one stuffed animal, make sure no mold on windowsills. His infection went away, he outgrew the dust allergy, and by the time he was eight he was constantly on his knees in the dirt. As an adult, he has no allergies.
You may not believe it but your paragraph supports it. As a baby your son had his healthy gut population decimated, and had allergies from it. As he grew, and his diet expanded, probably a good, varied diet with the starchy fibrous food the gut bugs love, he got better. Once he started playing in the dirt, he became exposed to all the brilliant soil bacteria that help us. His diet supported that population. In this way, all his allergies left and he grew wonderful gut populations!
Isn’t this something normal people who care about these issues have known for years?
Allowing young kids to play outside and get dirty is going to be a tough sell to germaphobic helicopter moms who also can now fear CPS will arrest them for letting kids play outside.
Maybe but most likely not playing outside in the sunshine and eating mud pies and getting bumps and bruises sliding into home on the empty lot next door and playing with your flea ridden dog. Being out in nature helps build immunities, strenghtens the body, and helps them from becoming mama's boys and girly men.
I grew up in peanut country. Kids would help with the peanut harvest and there was peanut dust everywhere. It was back in the day of government peanut butter so every school lunch tray had some form of peanut butter on it - a cookie, an apple with peanut butter, a dixie cup of peanut butter and honey with a fresh hot yeast roll, etc. Most kids had government peanut butter in their homes because after it was given away to the needy, they’d give what was left that month to anyone. There was so much excess hardly anyone in the county had to buy peanut butter or cheese. Or they’d grind their own from the local farms. NO ONE had a peanut allergy. No one ever heard of a peanut allergy.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. Peanut butter was everywhere, in every school. Now in most schools peanut butter is verboten.
Kids don’t play in dirt anymore. Those that do have far less “allergies”.
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