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- goeric, on 02/20/2009, -1/+40In other news: Digg headlines mysteriously contnue to have missing lettrs.
- nates, on 02/20/2009, -5/+30Sucks when ya got allegys
- rawnzilla, on 02/20/2009, -1/+19That's nuts!
- awtripp, on 02/20/2009, -1/+17What a scary ***** test that must be.
"Look, I know these would normally kill you, but trust us give those nuts a try now"
And this is what they actually did
"Researchers gave small daily doses of peanut flour to children with severe peanut allergy to help them to build tolerance to the nuts over a six-month period. " - jer21, on 02/20/2009, -0/+14Actually...it's a legume.
- inactive, on 02/20/2009, -1/+14Allegy?
- Benno, on 02/20/2009, -1/+14hey people that think anaphylactic shock is made up, sorry for being such a pussy when my throat swells up and I can't breathe.
- Avaseal, on 02/20/2009, -12/+23They quit being pussies and decided to man-up?
- cantignie, on 02/20/2009, -0/+9I'm allergic to peanuts, and this is awesome news. I'm so ***** sick of having to double check everything I eat. Hopefully this treatment gets some major attention and can be utilized in the US.
- TreatsTheBear, on 02/20/2009, -1/+10Anaphylactic shock is real, I just don't think every four-year-old with an epi pen is really in as much danger as they (and their parents) think they are.
- inactive, on 02/20/2009, -0/+8This is good news. I had a friend who died from a peanut allergy. Probably against better judgment, she ate a dessert at a local restaurant that contained peanuts, even though she was told it was peanut free (and had no epipen). She fell into anaphylactic shock, and into a coma, and died a few days later :( Peanut allergies are not to be ***** with.
- cbrophy78, on 02/20/2009, -0/+8dugg for allowing kids to eat nuts
- pyper, on 02/20/2009, -0/+8Peanuts are not nuts they are a bean, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut
Now if they could cure my nut allergy so I can have some Pecan pie, that would be awesome. - JasonCox, on 02/20/2009, -2/+10It's ok, we forgive you. Just don't sit next to me on a plane, nothing gets between me and my little packet of airline peanuts.
- giveer, on 02/20/2009, -0/+7The immune system in many of the newest North American generations are registering the contents in peanuts as an 'invader' and the body releases histamines and "fighters" to kill it off - resulting in a myriad of nearly instant, sometimes fatal reactions.
Why all THAT is happening, however is up for debate. Popular theories include: 1) Western culture sanitizes EvEryThInG and now our immune systems are starting to breakdown (E.g.: drinking another country's water is beyond our immune system's capability.) and 2) Fewer women are breast feeding and thus, not passing off as much "protective" genetic programming from mother to child.
Here's hoping you were looking for an actual answer and not being flippant. - Trustthedust, on 02/20/2009, -0/+6Dugg for poor editorial mistakes.
- alpharaptor, on 02/20/2009, -0/+5ba-dum-kssh!
- decibelx, on 02/20/2009, -0/+5- "Congrats, Johnny! You're not allergic to peanuts anymore!"
- "Awesome! Can I have some?"
- "Wellllllll no. Not right now, no." - tmlee, on 02/21/2009, -0/+4We actually do this all the time in the hospital for people with aspirin allergies. We start off with a low dose and progress upwards. I'm allergic to peanuts but don't really care much for it. But if I was allergic to aspirin and needed it, I would definitely want to do a desensitization for it.
- inactive, on 02/20/2009, -0/+4 He said it for a reason. You'd be surprised at the number of people that would have tried it and even more surprised at the number of people that will STILL try it. Kinda like warnings on cigarette packages.
- geekwithsoul, on 02/20/2009, -0/+3But nobody knows -- and thus the epi pen. Anaphylactic shock can kill you pretty damn quickly. If there was a chance you could die by being in the wrong environment or unknowingly ingesting the wrong food, would you want to take that chance? I've seen cases where children who ate peanuts just simply touched another child that had peanut allergies and that caused a reaction. Even for adults with serious allergies its pretty much impossible to completely control your surroundings - with kids it is flat out impossible.
- giveer, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3I was just giving an example that non-exposure to bacteria leaves the host unable to fight it off in case of contact. And then comparing that to modern day sanitizing of virtually everything. - I wasn't actually making a comment on a specific country's water supply - just explaining one of the theories as to why it happens using, quite possibly, a bad example. (I wasn't one of the digg-downers..)
- Rivetgeek, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3@benno
wtf, you get a reaction from people AROUND you eating them?? Seriously man, its boy-in-bubble time. - bromac, on 02/20/2009, -1/+4Drinking another country's water is beyond most peoples' ability, North American or not. How does not sanitizing something here allow you to build an immunity to a completely foreign microorganism?
- bromac, on 02/20/2009, -0/+3What? I'm being buried?
You people probably think the Natives got smallpox because they had wussy immune systems, not because a foreign microorganism was introduced that they've never been exposed to before and therefore had no immunity to.
Did you kids not get taught how vaccines work? - inactive, on 02/22/2009, -0/+3Wait a minute. My friend's brother in-law is a dr down in south carolina and he said allergies were 'acquired' because of a build-up of whatever you are alergic to (pollen or peanuts).
I always knew he was full of *****. - Alchemist11, on 02/20/2009, -0/+3I hope it could work for more than just peanuts. In theory it should, but to be honest I'd rather avoid cashews than have a chance to go into anaphylactic shock by being near it often.
- lowtolerance, on 02/20/2009, -0/+3It's really not that unusual for someone to get over a peanut allergy with age, or any allergy for that matter.
- MelekTawus, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2They are over-reported. My wife works in day care and she says that there are lots of parents who think their children have every allergy they heard about without ever getting the kids actually tested. Many will freak out when they ask for a doctors note describing their children's allergies.
- lowtolerance, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2Pecans are actually fruit.
- cyberwarriorx, on 02/21/2009, -0/+1I went through the same thing like 15 years ago with my doctor for a dust allergy. I was injected with a serum consisting of dust mites that was supposed to increase my tolerance to it. Instead it just gave me a huge welt that was like the size of an orange at the site of the injection. The crap doesn't work.
- MeatMountain, on 02/20/2009, -5/+7Thats ok i don't have allergies because im not weak.
- apocalypselater, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2"Mr Clark warned families not to try to replicate the study at home."
No *****. - mschuenke, on 02/20/2009, -1/+3I used to be allergic to peanuts, but unlike what the article said, my allergy receded over time. I can now eat as much peanuts as I want. Who knows what happened.
- geekwithsoul, on 02/20/2009, -1/+3Which most airlines (at least in the U.S., Australia, and Britain -- the only ones I've personally experienced) stopped serving decades ago?
- Benno, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2Unfortunately some airlines do on some routes. Last December I woke up on a southwest flight itchy as hell since everyone around me was eating peanuts. I took a benedryl tab and went back to sleep. It's a good thing the flight was nearly empty and I had some antihistamines or it could have been a lot worse. I don't care if people eat peanuts in a situation where I have the option to leave but airplanes are a small enclosed recycled air environment that you're stuck in for a few hours.
- noclss2000, on 02/20/2009, -1/+3I think there was some other article posted on here not too long ago stating along the lines of that nut allergies were "yuppie allergies" since it was rich white kids that had the allergies and the poorer kids living in the projects didn't have the allergies. lawlz.
- inactive, on 02/22/2009, -0/+2Keep feeding 'em peanuts! Put a hose down their throats and keep feeding 'em peanuts!
- geekwithsoul, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2That often happens with allergies -- often they are developed in childhood and then disappear during your early 20's (but can then reoccur in your 40s) - OR - you only develop them as an adult (again, usually in your 20's)
- Mothrax, on 02/21/2009, -0/+2dugg for yoghurt
- channeleaton, on 02/21/2009, -0/+2Don't know why it took them this long to think of this treatment. Allergists have been doing this for years for most other allergies.
- vidaliasweet, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2Peanuts are legumes not nuts. I've never understood why people with peanut allergies are also allergic to other nuts and not say...beans. If they really want to cure peanut allergies they should stop using whatever weird proccess or chemical they have in those nut factories/farms. Not that I actually know that the frig is going on, I'm just saying....these things are not nuts.
- inactive, on 02/22/2009, -0/+2I still think he's full of *****, but I'm sure your response was well informed.
- HamatoKameko, on 02/21/2009, -0/+2I always feel that way about starting into a new jar of peanut butter. I preserve as much of the surface as I can for as long as I can.
- tmlee, on 02/21/2009, -0/+1We actually do this all the time in the hospital for people with aspirin allergies. We start off with a low dose and progress upwards. I'm allergic to peanuts but don't really care much for it. But if I was allergic to aspirin and needed it, I would definitely want to do a desensitization for it.
- MasterGrief, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1Wicked pissah!
- liuite, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1so are cashews
- Alchemist11, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1nevermind this one
- TheCake, on 02/22/2009, -0/+1Your friend's brother-in-law is right. Certain allergies, like hey fever, take several years to build up: After a number of seasons of pollen entering your body, your body gives up on the "normal" methods of fighting what it sees as an attack, and goes to plan b - allergic reactions.
- purseonality, on 02/22/2009, -0/+1Clergy allegedly delivers eulogy in elegy.
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