NUTS!!
Posted on 01/10/2009 9:19:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Your kid doesn't have an allergy to nuts. Your kid has a parent who needs to feel special. Your kid also spends recess running and screaming, "No! Stop! Don't rub my head with peanut butter!"
Yes, a tiny number of kids have severe peanut allergies that cause anaphylactic shock, and all their teachers should be warned, handed EpiPens and given a really expensive gift at Christmas. But unless you're a character on "Heroes," genes don't mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don't cause 25% of parents to believe that their kids have food allergies, when 4% do. Yuppiedom does.
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Parents may think they are doing their kids a favor by testing them and being hyper-vigilant about monitoring what they eat, but it's not cool to freak kids out. Only 20% of kids who get a positive allergy test result need treatment. And a 2003 study showed that kids who were told they were allergic to peanuts had more anxiety and felt more physically restricted than if they had diabetes. "It's anxiety-producing to imagine that having a snack in kindergarten could be deadly," Christakis said. Remember, this is a demographic so easily panicked that, equipped with only circles and dots, it invented an inoculation to cooties.
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So bring back nuts to schools. If parents need to panic about a food, at least go with seafood allergies. Those fish sticks are disgusting.
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They make an aged cheese from it ~ and that butterfat percentage kicks it up there with sour cream.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050602012109.htm
(I knew I wasn't imagining things...)
Regards,
PS: One day I hope to be able to taste reindeer cheese. Guess I'll have to head over to Lapland to try that one.
Try almost anywhere named "union" something, or "deer" something, or "elk" something, or Santa Claus, etc.
There's a pattern here denoting the movement of the New Sweden colony descendants across the country. Most of them appear to have been Sa'ami or had substantial Sa'ami ancestry.
By my pedigree, I am danish, dutch, german.
Also small amounts of english, irish, roma, russian-jew, and swedish.
But I’ve learned from the internet that I have something else in me. I know from my teeth type that I have a strong oriental component. I think that comes from native american genes. Native american genes are very similar to mongoloid(chinese) genes. Also, I think my little sister had the mongoloid spots on her rump when she was a tot. It’s hard for me to be sure since the years have faded some from my memory.
This is likely where the lactose intollerance comes from. Also, I have extended family members that have problems with alcohol.
I have very fair skin, darkish hair(very fine textured, I mean freakishly so, like a new born baby), bluish eyes, and I sun burn very easily. My relatives tend to be blue eyed, and dark blond or light brown haired. But darker skinned than me, coarser hair, and less hairy. When I was a tot, I had white hair. As did most of my relatives. My beard is red. But when I was in my twenties, my beard was jet black.
I grew very slow. Probably about 1.5 inches or more after graduating highschool. I started puberty about the average time, but it lasted maybe 5 times longer for me. Puberty was a very slow process for me. It seems like I had pubic hair before everyone else, but was the last to get out of the hard painful nipple phase. My wisdom teeth came in about age 25.
I have some unusual traits. I have a lower than normal body temp. something like 97.1 degrees. I have abnormal blood enzymes. My blood pressure is strange. top number is high and bottom number is very low. I sweat so much that I’m accused of being on drugs of some kind. I can drink amazing amounts of alcohol. I can withstand very cold temps and very hot temps too, so long as I can drink as much water as frequently as I want. When I was younger I ate like you would not beleive. And I mean that. I could literally draw a crowd when I ate. As a kid, my grandparents would take me to fancy restaurants(without my parents or siblings) just to watch me eat and show off to the proprietor.
Most of this probably has no bearing on my gene type, but I thought I’d throw it out there incase someone here might read it and give me some info that I’m not aware of. This is how I was informed about teeth types. FR has some very bright people on it.
Or maybe it is not because of genes.
More yuppie (There are still yuppies? I thought they died out 20 years ago.) children are in daycare so they are bottle fed not breast fed. Child is fed soybased formula. Child later develops peanut allery because peanuts and soy are close biological relatives.
I don’t know about your hypothesis. My sister had terrible excema when she was an infant. The doctors kept my mother in the hospital for six weeks and sent her home with my grandmother. The excema was so bad that my grandmother used to cover her with a blanket so that people wouldn’t ask what was wrong with her. The doctor told my grandmother to put her on soy formula, take down the drapes, pull up the rugs, get rid of all wool and stuffed toys in the room and bathe her in cod liver oil (the water had too much chlorine). He said that if she did not follow his instructions the baby would have asthma by the time she was three and other food allergies. My grandmother followed the directions to the letter.
My sister was the only one of us that did not develop allergies, and she had beautiful skin.
I forgot to add that my mother’s father died of a mastoid infection, following an ear infection, which was probably the result of severe allergies. He was twenty three years old, born in 1889.
Soy and peanuts are related and some allergies are caused by repeated exposure so it is a good place to start.
That does not mean that all kids fed soy will have peanut allergies later in life just that a higher persentage of them will.
I think that you could be on to something, especially if the parents don’t follow through with the other actions that my sister’s doctor recommended. Soy, alone won’t do it, and could cause the peanut problem. I wish that our childhood doctor was still alive, so that I could consult him.
That doctor was a regular doctor who converted to naturopathic because his daughter developed alopecia following a bout of scarlet fever. The doctor was convinced that is was a result of the sulfa drugs that she was given. She lost all of hair after a high fever and it never came back. She was much older than I, so I only remember her with a wig.
What a fascinating post, mamelukesabre! It seems that you have an extremely interesting ancestral past. My own is varied, but not a wide-spread as yours, to be sure.
It is interesting that you mention a long, drawn-out puberty because both my brother and myself were the tortoises in the puberty race at school. In fact, I was always the shortest in class until about the ninth grade and then...ZOOM! I flew right past everybody, but I STILL had not reached full menarche. (I’m a girl, BTW.) I didn’t do that until 19 and ended up being a 6-footer. My brother, while always among the tallest in class, had a huge growth at around the same age, but continued to grow into his early 20s. He’s 6-6 now.
My ancestry is solidly northern Eurpean, with the largest components being Polish, German and Irish, with a little Swiss tossed in. Did I mention that while our parents are both light-brown haired, my brother and I are both redheads (auburn)? Everybody’s got some form of green eyes, with mine being the very lightest...ice green, almost clear. (None of my children, nor my brother’s have our coloring; our kids are all light brown or blonde, and all but one has blue eyes — one of mine has my very light green.)
Thanks again for an interesting post.
Regards,
PS: BTW...none of us are lactose intolerant. In fact, I LOOOOVE milk and the high-test whole kind, to boot!
I am in favor of “truth in labeling” too. While you want to keep the wheat out of cornbread, I want to keep the corn out of everything. I am VERY allergic to corn, and as far as I can tell corn is in almost everything sold in the supermarket that has 3 or more ingredients. It will be corn starch corn flour, corn oil, or high fructos corn syrup. also sweeterner dextros and moltos are made from corn and maltodextrin is a flavor enhancer, and it makes my throat close up. Very scary when that happens.
Have you tried to pin down the exact chemical that's causing you the problem?
I feel for you. I have had many allergies all my life (I am 68). I am not bothered by seasonal allergies much anymore but I am very allergic to corn and chocolate. The chocolate I can easily avoid but corn is in everything. Here is the scary part, since I have gotten older I have become allergic to almost every prescription drug that the doctor wants me to take. the latest is a blood pressure medication that made my tongue swell up. One of these days I am going to need something to save my life and not be able to tolerate it.
No, I don’t know how to pin it down. I am lucky I figured out the maltodextrin.
It’s pretty hard to argue against hives all over the body.
I agree about the allergies, the bad thing is you can develop them at any time evidently. I spent New Year’s day in the ER due to an allergic reaction to OraJel! I have always had seasonal allergies but nothing like that. I had just applied some to a sore gum at bedtime and woke up with my throat closing up and my mouth swollen twice it’s size.
Turns out after seventy years I am allergic to benzocaine. I am on four different meds including steroids to clear it all up.
Just this last year they found 11 more genes that are associated with Celiac. Some rare individuals are intolerant of the gluten in wheat, barley and rye, and also the gluten in oats ~ which is different than that in wheat. I would suppose the same “forces” behind the proliferation of gluten intolerant genes could be at the root of a corn intolerance gene, or genes.
Gee, it was a nun (Sr of Mercy) who gave us the PB & J when we forgot our lunch.
Genes aren’t changing, but the opportunities for rare autosomal recessives to meet and great are dramatically improved. Many of these “intolerances” are about recessive, not dominant, genes.
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