What Are Your Thoughts On Peanut Allergies?
@AJ1952Chats (2331)
Anderson, Indiana
August 16, 2012 8:25am CST
When I was growing up (born 12/12/52), one might hear about this or that person being allergic to something, but you didn't hear of what has become almost an epidemic in recent years: an allergy to anything having even the remotest connection to peanuts--and one that has been known to be life threatening--or even fatal--at times.
Do you have any thoughts re: what has caused this sort of thing?
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@rsa101 (38189)
• Philippines
17 Aug 12
Yeah I think it can be attributed to poor immune system that a person gets allergic to certain things, food. I also am doubting about how these foods are grown like for example the peanuts, what sort of fertilizers, pesticides the farmers used to make these foods contain chemicals that are harmful for us humans.
There are actually many factors that we could find links between the growing cases of this allergies. It can come from environment and some technological advancement human makes that they inadvertently thought was good for humans but in the end makes it more harmful to us. allergies are just one of the symptoms we suffer from it.
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@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Aug 12
Exactly!!!
While vaccinations have been proven to be a blessing when properly administered, I think that the big overkill associated with them today is having a bad effect on the current younger generation.
Of course, the so-called pills used for curing mental illness (in spite of the fact that there isn't a one of those pills that has done anything towards making a so-called mentally-ill person well but, instead, has simply turned him or her into a zombie) have caused all kinds of physical health problems--one of those, I suspect, being a weakening of the person's immune system.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
16 Aug 12
I have no idea. I have eaten peanuts all my life and grew up on peanut butter and banana or peanut butter and grated apple sandwiches and never got the allergy. Yet there are people in our church who have children who have that allergy and it is so bad that we cannot bring nuts when we have a wedding shower. That makes it hard because I get sick of chocolate chip cake and banana bread minus the nuts. It could be that they do not introduce it soon enough so that when it is finally introduced, it is deadly.
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@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
16 Aug 12
Perhaps, it would be better if the kids were tested for allergies and, then, given injections to cure and/or manage them. This was how it was when I was growing up. One of my cousins was allergic to milk, but she was able to enjoy milk, ice cream, cheese, and other dairy products after she had been on the injections for awhile. Eventually, she didn't even need the injections. I think it would be very difficult to keep kids from having an allergic reaction by just depending on other people not to have this or that food around. After all, it isn't just peanuts that might cause an allergic reaction but, instead, countless other foods (and other things, too), so how could any child be perfectly safe anywhere unless we would put all of them into bubbles!?!
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@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Aug 12
I don't know if this is a case of being overly cautious or if something like this could actually happen. If it could actually happen, there would be no really safe place and the one who suffered such an allergy would have to always be in a bubble suit or else be restricted to a building with no outside ventilation along with the inside actually being devoid of any vestiges of peanuts.
Could it be that certain children have been chosen at random to receive some kind of addition to their vaccines that might create such an extremely lethal allergy within them? If so, WHY!?!
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
16 Aug 12
Peanuts or more commonly nuts are just one of the many things people are allergic or sensitive to. Certain people cannot drink milk, shellfish, certain fruits etc. There are people that cannot eat anything containing gluten, which must be really difficult to work around, because it includes things as simple as bread or biscuits. These allergies may be severe(life threatening requiring medical help) to mild irritations (skin rash). These allergies have always existed, the thing is many illnesses were misdiagnosed traditionally, because they did not have the information they have now. Medically it is the body overreacting to something it perceives as a threat, the reason why I don't know but with time hopefully a way will be found to help solve the problem.
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
17 Aug 12
Well I have eaten lots of peanuts but have never had any allergy from peanuts. I can say that I my skin is sensitive to peanuts because when I eat lots of peanuts, I get pimples or acne on my face. Otherwise I have clear sin. I can understand that allergies are different from person to person and it could be due to poor immune system as well.
My mum has allergy of tomatoes. when she eats tomatoes, her whole body starts itching and she gets all red spots on her skin. So I know that allergy can be of different degree on different person.
Thanks for sharing this vital information and the responses are really educational. have a wonderful day ahead. 
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@coelenterata (188)
• Indonesia
16 Aug 12
i like to inform you that all food can potentially caused allergic for all of us.and of course not all of us have the same allergic food.the degree of allergic is also vary from every person from mild to life threatening condition.in many literature books the food that usually caused an allergy is eggs,chicken,meat,fish,shrimp and other seafood,peanuts.yes peanuts are often caused an allergic reaction like you said.but i had read that many other people have allergy of rice,wheat too.the pathophysiology of allergy is very complicated and therefore there is a doctor who specialist at allergy field
