2 children in one school? That's just unbelievable. What's happened in the last 30 years to cause this incredible deadly allergy to really flourish. It would be an interesting study.
In the whole school there about a dozen or so with some sort of a peanut or egg allergy
What's causing this ?? ... I have no idea
Researchers started messing with the food chain via growth hormones in meats and genetically altering foods. That seems like a possibility. Artificial food additives is another possibility. When I was a kid bologna tasted good and never upset my stomach. Now one piece of it and within minutes I'm sick as a dog.
Nuts in various forms have been with us and eaten safely ever since. Many kids were raised on Carvers discovery of peanut butter. It has always been considered healthy. But when man started messing with our food chain {improving it as they call it} the problems seemed to become more profound.
Now even a loaf of bread can last two weeks and taste just as horrible & stale two weeks later as it did the day you bought it. Remember the term day old bread? It would be highly delicious and far more fresh tasting compared to the preservative filled loafs now being sold in stores. Some persons tolerance to these altered foods is much lower than others. MSG has to be one of the most unhealthiest food additives created by man IMO. I think food allergies for the most part are a result of mans tampering with what was once good food.
Ironically, it could be because of our healthier society that these allergies are being realized at a higher rate.
Infant mortality is at such a low level that it is unusual to hear of very many infant deaths without there being a traumatic event involved. In the past, it was common for children under 2 to just die for very little understood reasons. Our ability to provide good health care for the vast majority of infants may be allowing those with more and more severe allergies and reactions to live longer lives.
A child with a severe peanut allergy in the 1950's would be more likely to have died as an infant than a child today. The lack of available local health care, lack of knowledge of emergency personnel and the lack of general understanding of the symptoms of these kinds of allergic reactions would have led to many infant deaths ascribed to an unknown reason of death.
This begs the question, is this also what is happening with other "growing" problems? Asthma, autism, prostate cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease are all much more commonly diagnosed now than in the past. Is it better diagnostic ability, a real growth in these diseases, or are those who are prone to suffer from these diseases living longer than they were in the past and the disease is becoming more prevalent as a result? Good question in my opinion, and I don't think there is a good answer yet.