Are Peanut Allergies Overdiagnosed in Children?

[wolram]

What causes peanut allergy? What ever it is it must be very powerful if one can not bein the same room with peanuts.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170105082916.htm

 

[jedishrfu]

Short answer is no one knows, more about it may be found in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy

They mention the immune system being particularly sensitive to peanut and causing anaphylaxis (anaphylactic shock) in some folks.

 

[jedishrfu]

And here's a recent article suggesting that parents can inadvertently give peanut allergies to their kids by avoiding peanuts:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...eanuts-best-answer-peanut-allergies/96192894/

 

[dkotschessaa]

Another side note to this.. It turns out that a lot of allergies that are being reported https://www.fastcoexist.com/3056860/most-school-kids-who-report-food-allergies-dont-have-them. Kids get diagnosed at a very young age, and never get retested after outgrowing the allergy.

Got my baby boy on the Peanut Butter already. He cannot be a Kotschessa and not eat peanut butter.

-Dave K