Allergies

[wingriderz]

Peanut ,Gluten, the list seemes to be growing for our youth. Me being 60's 70's & 80's youth end. I don't ever rember anyone in school haveing these life-threatening alligeries to peanuts and all this other stuff. Where is it comeing from ?. And oh yeah we drank from the garden hose too.

 

[twodog max]

I have wondered about the same thing as well. I think maybe a lot of this is self diagnosed or doctors to quick to take the allergy route. Also maybe to many overprotective parents and couch potato kids. IMO

 

[Qball]

The human race is deteriorating

 

[ace22]

Peanut ,Gluten, the list seemes to be growing for our youth. Me being 60's 70's & 80's youth end. I don't ever rember anyone in school haveing these life-threatening alligeries to peanuts and all this other stuff. Where is it comeing from ?. And oh yeah we drank from the garden hose too.

yeah i agree, it's almost like those allergies were invented to push some agenda that is unknown to me.
btw, i also drink from the garden hose some times as i have for around 60 years.

 

[wingriderz]

And in those dated mentioned I don't think we ever heard the word gluten? Anyone one had the pleasure of having a dish made gluten free ??

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

A childhood friend had horrible reactions to peanuts.

My wife was diagnosed with Gluten sensitivity a few years ago. Stopped eating stuff with Gluten and she felt good. Now and then she slips and feels lousy... then remembers where she messed up.

Back in the day a lot of things simply went undiagnosed, including food allergies. If ya felt lousy meant ya felt lousy... quit complaining and get back to work!

And like everything else today, social media and 24/7 news can distort reality. After the same story is repeated a thousand times ya get to thinking whatever it is must be an epidemic or societal catastrophe.

 

[Tom S.]

A childhood friend had horrible reactions to peanuts.

My wife was diagnosed with Gluten sensitivity a few years ago. Stopped eating stuff with Gluten and she felt good. Now and then she slips and feels lousy... then remembers where she messed up.

Back in the day a lot of things simply went undiagnosed, including food allergies. If ya felt lousy meant ya felt lousy... quit complaining and get back to work!

I think you nailed it. Years ago, during one of my daughter's more complicated surgeries, the surgeon came out and told us she had gone into respiratory arrest on the table but they had brought her back and things were progressing as planned. Turned out she was allergic to latex. I had never heard of such a condition before, and later on was discussing the matter with one of the nurses who was also a family friend. When I asked why we'd never heard of this condition before, (my daughter was one of the first reported cases at Children's Hospital Detroit), she replied that she suspected the allergy has been around for as long as latex gloves had been in use, but was undiagnosed as such. She went on to ask, "Remember about hearing of someone going in for a routine or minor surgery and dying on the table? I believe it was from a reaction to latex.". Her theory, which made sense to me. Since then, hospitals have all gone latex free, but we still encountered problems occasionally from equipment that made with latex parts, or, we suspect, was assembled by workers wearing latex gloves. Years later, when my daughter attended college, it was a tradition for final's week to put a balloon on your dorm room door for each final you had, then pop the balloon after you took the final. Just having the balloons around, plus the latex they put into the air when popped was enough to cause my daughter to have reactions. She spent final's week on Benadryl.

 

[misswired]

I've just read this week that poinsettia plants are kin to the rubber tree from which latex is made.
It was advised that latex allergic people avoid poinsettias and rubber tree plants.

Pass it along.

 

[Muss Muggins]

My daughter has a severe peanut allergy. As in carries an EpiPen everywhere. She can't even walk in to one of those steak houses where you toss the peanut shells on the floor. That's how we first suspected there was a problem. Went to one when she was two. After about 20 minutes, her eyes began to water, her nose began to run, and she began to wheeze. We left, and by the end of the week we had our diagnosis. She's 16 now, and we've been fortunate to never have to use the EpiPen.

If that's a made up societal illness, I'll . . .

 

[oneounceload]

It comes from, in part, all of the antibiotics both in the animals we eat and the meds docs hand out like candy. The body's natural defense has been compromised as a result.