17 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  1. My granddaughter had a really bad reaction to eggs. Put her in the emergency room with a horrible rash across her whole body and face! Aieeeee! She was a mess. But with treatment she rapidly recovered with no ill effects.

    Her parents will be re-introducing her to eggs slowly … as foods with eggs as an ingredient first, then whole eggs again as she gets older and has built up tolerance. Why? Because they’re smart people, who love their daughter.

  3. I wonder if anyone has suggested she move halfway around the planet, relocating to some nation where she and her children are unlikely to encounter trees. Some desert location might be appropriate.

  4. That sounds like common sense making a comeback. When I was young, food allergies and ‘sensitivities’ to chemicals were very rare, then suddenly they were everywhere.

    I get pissed every time I see an ad for one of those “Kills 99% of all bacteria and viruses!” cleaning products with a smiling baby attached. Aside from the obvious guilt trip they are trying to lay on us, do they not realize how (and when) the immunities that keep us all healthy are actually developed? Or do they just care more about marketing and profits?

    (yeah, don’t answer that…it was rhetorical…;)

    1. doing the math here, meanwhile the surviving 1% are the tough old guts of the pathogen set, and lookie lookie all its deceased brethren left all that food and surface behind. have at ‘er!!!

  5. Brings to mind Canadian outdoorsman Les Stroud’s battle with poison ivy. His thinking being that if he ingested tiny amounts of poison ivy and increased the dosage over time his body would build up an immunity to the plant. No.
    Not exactly a medical breakthrough moment for Les. I don’t know if he still suffers from horrific episodes of rashes etc. which can occur at anytime, in the bush or at home. I’m sure in retrospect he wishes he consulted his doctor.

  6. Likewise I believe we now know it is common sense to raise children with feline and canine companions, because such exposure early in life stimulates the latent abilities of the immune system. Helicopter parents are ultimately deadly.

  7. Yep, when we were starting our family in the early 2000s the prenatal and parenting books seemed to be designed to make new parents scared of everything. My parents were both raised as farm kids and told funny stories about their childhood in large farm families so I know kids are not china cup fragile. Naturally I was more careful with my first baby but for the most part I rolled my eyes at the vast majority of “expert” advice on pregnancy and parenting. The result, no allergies and not even an ear infection in their childhood years.

    Our kids went to summer camp every year. Part of the process is the parents lining up at drop off to complete the registration. I was surprised at how many parents had bags of medications and detailed dietary instructions. Way more than 50%.

  9. Well, that paragraph about introduction through the skin is what our pediatrician suggested was the likely source for our kid’s anaphylactic nut allergy. Kid had infantile eczema for about 2 years after birth. We never got the chance to feed the kid any before kid presented with massive, head-swelling edema, later sourced to nut residue on the restaurant high chair or table edge.

    At the time, the doc suggested this only as a theory, rather than a certainty, so it sounds like the evidence is getting stronger.

  11. But but but we should all be concerned about the rise of the disease of autism. Occurence of this disease has increased geometrically since its invention discovery..

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