Current Events > peanut bans don't work

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gosh who would have thought that running away from your problems instead of educating yourself on how to deal with them was a bad idea.

http://acsh.org/news/2017/04/06/peanut-free-school-zones-dont-work-11104
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I don't understand where peanut allergies came from. Never heard of them until I was in college, when suddenly kids started getting rushed to the ER because a teacher ate peanits and then spoke to the class and her breath caused a reaction.

Were they always there and nobody cared or did something freaky happen a decade or two ago?
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DevsBro posted...

I don't understand where peanut allergies came from. Never heard of them until I was in college, when suddenly kids started getting rushed to the ER because a teacher ate peanits and then spoke to the class and her breath caused a reaction.

Were they always there and nobody cared or did something freaky happen a decade or two ago?

Short answer: kids with peanut allergies died as infants and we called it "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" cause we had no idea what was causing it (peanut isn't the only offender of this, but it's one of the biggest ones).
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DevsBro posted...

I don't understand where peanut allergies came from.

Turns out that sterility causes the immune system to freak the hell out when it comes across something new.

http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140606/too-clean-homes-may-encourage-child-allergies-asthma-study
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/7589193/Excessive-cleanliness-to-blame-for-allergy-rise.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121003082734.htm

Oh damn.

I never would have guessed it was that.
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I like to go with Louis CK's idea of dealing with peanut allergies: "Lets just all close our eyes for a year and then hey, no more peanut allergies!"
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Kids used to be exposed to peanuts early on. They built up immunity to them. Peanut allergies just plain didn't exist. Then one kid who never touched a peanut in his childhood touched one and ended up dying, overbearing parents prevented their kids from coming into contact with peanuts, and the allergy spread

People are under the impression that the mere whiff of a peanut is enough to send some kids to the emergency room

Wait... is this a thing? Are people that stupid?
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E32005 posted...

I like to go with Louis CK's idea of dealing with peanut allergies: "Lets just all close our eyes for a year and then hey, no more peanut allergies!"

You can't solve peanut allergies with eugenics as it's only partially genetic and partially developmental
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ChromaticAngel posted...

E32005 posted...

I like to go with Louis CK's idea of dealing with peanut allergies: "Lets just all close our eyes for a year and then hey, no more peanut allergies!"

You can't solve peanut allergies with eugenics as it's only partially genetic and partially developmental

its a joke dude....jfc
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