BurbMan wrote:
WELL SAID! When we were kids you never heard of peanut allergies, wheat allergies, etc. Kids that are "protected" from peanuts when they are young are guaranteed to be allergic when they grow older. Kids who ate peanuts when they were young aren't allergic because their body's immune system was exposed to them when it was still developing.
There is a WHOLE LOT MORE to peanut allergies than that. My daughters best friend (10 years old) has had a peanut allergy her entire life. eating one Halloween candy almost killed her. Next time it will. She has many other allergies and NONE are caused by a lack of exposure. Exposure INCREASES the risk, it does not mitigate it.
If she wasn't "protected" from peanuts when she was young she would be dead.
BTW, I heard of ALL those allergies when I was a kid. And allergies are from an OVER-ACTIVE immune system, not an under-active one.
