[Larry_OHF]

Originally posted by Sir Degrader: Allergies... Ugh. How is it that they haven't fallen out of our gene pool yet? You'd figure an aversion to a type of edible food isn't the most favourable trait to have...

Its because stuff like peanut allergies is increasing moreso than before. That link I provided says that a new theory is that baby lotions that contain peanut oil as an ingredient could be causing the problem. My daughter's allergy doctor told us that it should be made widely known that giving a child allergy-prone proteins before the age of 3 is likely to cause that child to create an allergy for it.

The allergy comes on when the body does not recognize the protein as a useful substance but rather a danger to the body and tries to attack it with the immune system. (From what I have been told and can remember). The good news is that if I can keep all peanuts away from my two year old for another year...there is a small chance that her body would have forgotten what that protein looked like and so when reintroduced...she may be normal. Its all I have to hope for for her sake.

Nutritionists and doctors will tell you that a mother's breast milk is supposes to decrease the chances of allergies coming on in life, and give the child even more chances at a healthy body than one fed with formula. My research has found scientific proof in professional peer-reviewed journals indicating that the peanut allergies may in fact be given to the child through the mother if the mother consumes a lot of peanuts. Some medical professionals disagree, fo course...but what then is causing all the allergies these days if things like these theories are not the cause?