Aibu To not really understand why so many children have food allergies?

[daftpunk]

Babies are weaned later ......? I didn't know anyone allergic to nuts or milk when I was at school, can someone explain it?

Thanks CP - that is really interesting.

step away from the puter, pag

well it's kind of there under your nose dp

unless you choose to look the other way

Look, I listened to my family doctor re: mmr, do you know what he said? Take no notice of the mmr scares, they will be disproved.. That was 8 years ago.....he was right.

"Wasn't that 'clown' a doctor, wasn't it in fact a whole team of clowns doctors?"

Er, no. Well at least not a very big team. It was one clown (Dr Andrew Wakefield), and two others (Professor Walker-Smith and Professor Murch). At least those were the ones that got had up for professional misconduct. I think Wakefield was the only one accused of falsifying data but I could be wrong.

Wakefield has, I believe, gone to seek his fortune in the States.

I now promise never to bring up MMR again. Sorry!

Maybe you two should read back some of the links on a few of the MMR threads.

Wakefield is not seeking his fortune. He has set up a centre "fighting to recover children with autism, PDD, Asperger's syndrome, ADD, ADHD and NLD with a combination of medical care, education, and research".

He has had to relocate his entire family after living apart from them for a number of years. He has returned to defend himself with the support of the parents of children in his original study, who did not file the complaint with the GMC. That was filed by a journalist.

The GMC is taking a very long time over its consideration. Hardly an open and shut case.

You can do Otter, when you've done a bit of reading. You won't be so sarcastic or free with the then.

madeindevon2, there's every chance your DS will outgrow his egg allergy. My DS also had bad eczema as a baby (derm. nurse taught me how to wet-wrap him, etc) and an allergy to eggs. I've got a lovely photo of him with one eye all swollen and closed where he touched a fork used to beat eggs and then touched his face! His current favourite food is soft-boiled eggs with soldiers - I reckon he outgrew the allergy around 6 or 7. Eczema is much diminished now too, it took a little longer.

the good thing is most people learn some thing on these threads.
can someone answer something pretty please...
my sil said that he GD would not be having any thing with nuts in it.....in case she was alergic, if you don't let a child try some thing how do you know??

(her GD)

i dont understand that either 2shoes
i have a friend who is exactly the same with her kid

To me (in my limited experience!) it seems possible that restricting something from your diet can lead to an increase in allergies.
I know a fair few babies now with a milk intolerance and they are all the ones who have been excl BF for several months and then had dairy restricted until much later in their diet once weaned.
A friend of mine specifically said she was restricting dairy in case of allergies or intolerances but her baby reacted to it when she did give it at a later stage.
Seems to be quite a coincidence to me.

Just going back to a few earlier posts - of what relevance is it whether you ate "anything" during pregnancy? Peanuts are the only food even under question for provoking (or not) allergies in life.

All the other foods recommended to avoid in pg (raw shellfish, mould-ripened cheese, liver etc) are recommended to avoid for other reasons: listeria, salmonella etc - nothing to do with allergies.

There is a poss link with your gut being too 'clean' as pregnant woman are told to avoid unpasturised milk, blue cheese, rare meat, raw fish etc. There is a link between taking probiotics during pregnancy and a decrease in childhood eczema. Its thought that the probiotics are essentialy replacing bacteria that people used to get from food.

I think DaftPunk just brought it up to demonstrate how her excellent choices have resulted in children without allergies whereas parents of allergic children are 'overprotecting' them in some way, possibly by not feeding them worms.

FWIW I ate sushi, rare steak and unpasturised soft cheese during prenancy because I considered it to be an acceptable risk and still have an allergic child. I don't think it is a problem that can be solved with a single approach.

..listen, i'm sorry i said i have excellent decision making skills...you don't have to drag it out.

I'm really confused about what the point of this thread is?

It seems to be bashing people whose children really have allergies which seems bizarre to me. Do you mean that why do people claim their children have allergies when they don't really...

I also find it slightly distasteful that people are discussing how some children with allergies are an example of evolution in reverse.

Maybe if we were better parents then we wouldn't have created these throwbacks?

I do think there can be a link between what you eat in pg though... based on my highly representative sample of 1
I craved milk in my recent pg, drank litres and litres of it- we were going through 16 pints a week (me, DH and DD)...
ds (6mo) has cows milk protein intolerance- he has horrible bleeding eczema all over him.
He also had the most horrific nappies as a newborn, which only improved when I cut milk from my diet.

YANBU YABVI HTH

princesstoadstool....that is completely untrue...the point of this thread was to find out why food allergies seem to be on the rise....