Ghoti
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Look at the date on the original post. His kid is probably scouting middle schools now.
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Little Melvin can't be exposed to peanuts (1 Viewer)
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NCCommish
Footballguy
I would hope. The daughter should be pushing 10.
or a time machine
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
I swear this song came on today on the radio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-IWlzSItM&t=4m55s
Appropriate bump.
Appropriate bump.
culdeus
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You left out. I'm Mr. Pickles, from the internet.
Grace Under Pressure
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Married Dude Moral of the Story: Be careful when you Internet.
Clifford
Footballguy
yeah caught that a little late
Sweet J
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One of my favorite parts of the story. I love this place.
growlers
Footballguy
I am not a frequent poster, but I want to shamelessly plug my role in FFA history as the guy who found the peanut forum, joined there, and helped recruit the "peanut moms" here.The peanut forum I linked to in 2005 is dead, but it's legacy lives on in the FFA.
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
You basically have blood on your hands.
mr. furley
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we never got the answer to why you picked up
Mr. Pickles
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Why not?
mr. furley
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Tick
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glumpy
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Lost Diaries.
Thorn
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Actually, my notebook says we did:
phishphan
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and the "I'm from the Internet" still cracks me up.
Kool-Aid Larry
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t's up with women and that toilet seat schtick?
culdeus
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The other thing that sucked was we lost all the embellished stories of Mojo's family. For some reason he felt the need to nuke them all when his world was crashing down.
I wonder if the dude is still even alive. This thing spiraled so fast on him and I remember that he showed up on e one time out of the blue to say that he had no family, his wife's family was it and they all wanted him to just vanish.
I wonder if the dude is still even alive. This thing spiraled so fast on him and I remember that he showed up on e one time out of the blue to say that he had no family, his wife's family was it and they all wanted him to just vanish.
mr. furley
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Pretty interesting article here, including this:
Whether a food is tolerated or becomes an allergen depends upon whether it is first encountered by oral ingestion or by external skin contact. When oral ingestion comes first, tolerance is induced. But skin contact prior to ingestion induces allergies. The rise in peanut allergies in Britain has been traced to the use of skin creams for diaper rash that contained peanut oil. Mice lathered with egg protein became asthmatic; but not if they ate the egg first. Some proteins cross-sensitize, so soy based creams can also sensitize to peanuts. The basis of immunotherapy is to build up tolerance gradually through sublingual exposure; it doesn’t work to build up by exposure on the skin.
Whether a food is tolerated or becomes an allergen depends upon whether it is first encountered by oral ingestion or by external skin contact. When oral ingestion comes first, tolerance is induced. But skin contact prior to ingestion induces allergies. The rise in peanut allergies in Britain has been traced to the use of skin creams for diaper rash that contained peanut oil. Mice lathered with egg protein became asthmatic; but not if they ate the egg first. Some proteins cross-sensitize, so soy based creams can also sensitize to peanuts. The basis of immunotherapy is to build up tolerance gradually through sublingual exposure; it doesn’t work to build up by exposure on the skin.
St. Louis Bob
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Funny, I finally convinced (by telling them they were really healthy of all things) my boys to try cashews for the first time today. Neither of them will eat peanut butter. Cal freaked out because a kid in his class has a severe allergy.
Verdict
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These are really good! Can I have some more?! Dyl waited for Cal to eat some first though before trying them. 
Kool-Aid Larry
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could we get a link to your blog?'St. Louis Bob said:Funny, I finally convinced (by telling them they were really healthy of all things) my boys to try cashews for the first time today. Neither of them will eat peanut butter. Cal freaked out because a kid in his class has a severe allergy.Verdict These are really good! Can I have some more?! Dyl waited for Cal to eat some first though before trying them.
Pipes
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Interesting but neither of these are true in my case. We have 2 kids 16 months apart first one is fine and loves peanut butter...2nd one is allergic. He can be at the same table with someone eating peanuts but if he ingested one we'd have to give him an epipen injection. Wife breastfed both and her diet was pretty much the same. We also would've used the same baby products on both kids. I guess he was just unlucky.
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Eviloutsider
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Had a students with a peanut allergy all year. No real issue as we went to a Brewer game, other kids had PB and J sandwiches away from him, and those who brought in anything with nuts for snack ate in the reading chairs in the hall and then washed their hands. Wasn't a big deal.
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pyite76
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I didn't read this whole thread, and I realize it's from nearly 10 years ago, but I noticed some intolerance to kids with food allergies, and the suggestion that parents remove their child from a school if they have special dietary needs.
I think this is ridiculous. If a child has a special education need, the law protects them and forces schools to provide services. I fail to see any difference with kids experiencing peanut allergies.
My son is almost 2 years old, and we've been dealing with food allergies for almost a year now. He's allergic to (at varying degrees): Peanuts, dairy, eggs, hazelnuts, cashew, pistachio, soy, bananas, sunflower, almonds and brazil nuts. When he was a baby, he would get uber fussy and scream in pain when he'd breastfeed. We eventually got him onto formula, but that wasn't much better (dairy is in formula). We finally moved on to almond milk (he didn't like soy milk much), but his main symptoms never got better. Now he's on Hemp-milk. Chocolate Hemp-milk. Crazy. He had terrible eczema, and he's still only had a handful of solid poops in his life. It frustrating, and reading every label and familiarizing yourself with all the ingredients is stressful.
Luckily (knock on wood) we haven't had but one scary incident. We were at a tree lighting ceremony this past Christmas, and afterwards I noticed a blistery rash on his face (typical allergic reaction). I quickly gave him Benadryl and the rash subsided, and he fell asleep. About 6 hours later, he woke up in the middle of the night with labored breathing/wheezing. We ended up giving him the Epi-pen and a trip in the ambulance to the ER. It was a brutal experience.
We even found that there was SOYBEAN in his mattress of all places. Since we swapped out the mattress, he's been sleeping better at night. It's only been about 2 weeks though. Who would have thunk we had soybean in his mattress.
Rant over, I just wanted to share some of our experiences with food allergies, and to let people know they aren't a small deal. They can be deadly. There is a case every week, of some poor kid somewhere in the world who died from a food allergy. The whole attitude of it's "your problem" not "our problem" makes this thread tough for me to read. FA parents need help, as we can't control everything our kid is exposed to, no matter how hard we try. It's especially difficult with a young kid who isn't able to communicate/talk well yet. My boy is living a happy life right now, and hopefully the allergies subside as he gets older (they often do), but for now, this is a daily struggle.
Be nice to your FA kids and their parents. They are a stressed out breed. Imagine worrying about your child's life every minute of everyday, and you're not a "overprotective parent", you just want your kid to stay alive!
Edit to add: Ryker (our son) is our second child. Our first has NO food allergies. Same everything for both growing up.
I think this is ridiculous. If a child has a special education need, the law protects them and forces schools to provide services. I fail to see any difference with kids experiencing peanut allergies.
My son is almost 2 years old, and we've been dealing with food allergies for almost a year now. He's allergic to (at varying degrees): Peanuts, dairy, eggs, hazelnuts, cashew, pistachio, soy, bananas, sunflower, almonds and brazil nuts. When he was a baby, he would get uber fussy and scream in pain when he'd breastfeed. We eventually got him onto formula, but that wasn't much better (dairy is in formula). We finally moved on to almond milk (he didn't like soy milk much), but his main symptoms never got better. Now he's on Hemp-milk. Chocolate Hemp-milk. Crazy. He had terrible eczema, and he's still only had a handful of solid poops in his life. It frustrating, and reading every label and familiarizing yourself with all the ingredients is stressful.
Luckily (knock on wood) we haven't had but one scary incident. We were at a tree lighting ceremony this past Christmas, and afterwards I noticed a blistery rash on his face (typical allergic reaction). I quickly gave him Benadryl and the rash subsided, and he fell asleep. About 6 hours later, he woke up in the middle of the night with labored breathing/wheezing. We ended up giving him the Epi-pen and a trip in the ambulance to the ER. It was a brutal experience.
We even found that there was SOYBEAN in his mattress of all places. Since we swapped out the mattress, he's been sleeping better at night. It's only been about 2 weeks though. Who would have thunk we had soybean in his mattress.
Rant over, I just wanted to share some of our experiences with food allergies, and to let people know they aren't a small deal. They can be deadly. There is a case every week, of some poor kid somewhere in the world who died from a food allergy. The whole attitude of it's "your problem" not "our problem" makes this thread tough for me to read. FA parents need help, as we can't control everything our kid is exposed to, no matter how hard we try. It's especially difficult with a young kid who isn't able to communicate/talk well yet. My boy is living a happy life right now, and hopefully the allergies subside as he gets older (they often do), but for now, this is a daily struggle.
Be nice to your FA kids and their parents. They are a stressed out breed. Imagine worrying about your child's life every minute of everyday, and you're not a "overprotective parent", you just want your kid to stay alive!
Edit to add: Ryker (our son) is our second child. Our first has NO food allergies. Same everything for both growing up.
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bigbottom
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Gawain
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Sunday?
Raider Nation
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This thread is like an old friend.
Raider Nation
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Reason Behind Increasing Food Allergies Discovered
by Rick Paulas
August 28, 2014
Try to remember grade school. (This may take either a few seconds or hours, depending on how far into the vault those memories are located.) Remember when it came time for lunch. Now, try to remember how many times you heard the phrase "food allergy."
If you're in your mid-20s or older, odds are the answer is "rarely, if ever." But, man, times have changed.
If you have children of your own, or have walked within 100 feet of a school recently, you know that's not the case anymore. We're bombarded with warnings about food allergies almost on a daily basis, and that's because they're a big problem. They've risen a whopping 50% between 1997 and 2007, and no one's quite sure why. But a new study from the University of Chicago not only offers a possible cure, but a possible cause.
A very quick summary of the study: Scientists took a group of mice with peanut allergies and gave them the gut bacteria Clostridia, a bacteria found commonly in humans. After administering it, they found that the mice no longer had food allergies. Hooray!
To understand more about this study, I called up the lead researcher, immunologist Dr. Cathryn Nagler. She's spent the past decade studying how our bodies develop food allergies, including trying to analyze why we're able to eat anything at all.
"All the food that comes into your body is a potentially foreign material," says Nagler. "I've been looking at why we're not allergic to all of the foods we eat."
In an attempt to further probe that question, Nagler and her colleagues authored a 2004 study that concluded the removal of gut bacteria in mice led to the development of food allergies. (They removed the bacteria by administering antibiotics, something to keep in mind for later.) With that conclusion out of the way, they began working on reversing the process by re-introducing bacteria. After a few tries, they found one that worked: Clostridia.
"When I say Clostridia, I'm talking about a big class of bacteria," says Nadler. "It may include hundreds, maybe thousands of members. There's so much we don't know about the gut. It's not like I can say I'd like to test X-Y-Z. You only test what you can isolate. We were lucky because we were able to isolate the Clostridia's unique property of forming spores."
Once introduced to the mice, the Clostridia acts as a barrier to keep the allergens in peanut proteins from entering their bloodstream. The allergens are still there, but they're not able to produce the allergic reaction. Hence: No more food allergies. So, how long until this result provides benefits for humans?
"There's much, much, much more work to be done," says Nagler. "Next, we want to look at children with food allergies. And then it has to be developed in a safe drug format, and that's going to take some time."
But one thing we don't have to wait for is what this study suggests about the possible culprit behind food allergies: Our antibiotics-happy culture.
"We don't want to say this is a cause and effect relationship, but we do want to raise the concern," says Nagler. "An infectious disease specialist made the point that most kids in the U.S. receive two or three courses of antibiotics in infancy. Most of the treatments they receive are for viral infections, meaning, they're getting a treatment that serves no purpose."
What they're getting instead is the alteration and elimination of the bacteria that may keep allergens at bay. And that's just one of the problems that are associated with the overuse of antibiotics.
"There's a lot of reasons to cut back," says Nagler. "Not only food allergies, but so-called Diseases of Western Lifestyle seem to be increasing with the increasing use of antibiotics. There's also antibiotic resistance. It's not controversial to say that we need to be more judicious in our use of antibiotics."
by Rick Paulas
August 28, 2014
Try to remember grade school. (This may take either a few seconds or hours, depending on how far into the vault those memories are located.) Remember when it came time for lunch. Now, try to remember how many times you heard the phrase "food allergy."
If you're in your mid-20s or older, odds are the answer is "rarely, if ever." But, man, times have changed.
If you have children of your own, or have walked within 100 feet of a school recently, you know that's not the case anymore. We're bombarded with warnings about food allergies almost on a daily basis, and that's because they're a big problem. They've risen a whopping 50% between 1997 and 2007, and no one's quite sure why. But a new study from the University of Chicago not only offers a possible cure, but a possible cause.
A very quick summary of the study: Scientists took a group of mice with peanut allergies and gave them the gut bacteria Clostridia, a bacteria found commonly in humans. After administering it, they found that the mice no longer had food allergies. Hooray!
To understand more about this study, I called up the lead researcher, immunologist Dr. Cathryn Nagler. She's spent the past decade studying how our bodies develop food allergies, including trying to analyze why we're able to eat anything at all.
"All the food that comes into your body is a potentially foreign material," says Nagler. "I've been looking at why we're not allergic to all of the foods we eat."
In an attempt to further probe that question, Nagler and her colleagues authored a 2004 study that concluded the removal of gut bacteria in mice led to the development of food allergies. (They removed the bacteria by administering antibiotics, something to keep in mind for later.) With that conclusion out of the way, they began working on reversing the process by re-introducing bacteria. After a few tries, they found one that worked: Clostridia.
"When I say Clostridia, I'm talking about a big class of bacteria," says Nadler. "It may include hundreds, maybe thousands of members. There's so much we don't know about the gut. It's not like I can say I'd like to test X-Y-Z. You only test what you can isolate. We were lucky because we were able to isolate the Clostridia's unique property of forming spores."
Once introduced to the mice, the Clostridia acts as a barrier to keep the allergens in peanut proteins from entering their bloodstream. The allergens are still there, but they're not able to produce the allergic reaction. Hence: No more food allergies. So, how long until this result provides benefits for humans?
"There's much, much, much more work to be done," says Nagler. "Next, we want to look at children with food allergies. And then it has to be developed in a safe drug format, and that's going to take some time."
But one thing we don't have to wait for is what this study suggests about the possible culprit behind food allergies: Our antibiotics-happy culture.
"We don't want to say this is a cause and effect relationship, but we do want to raise the concern," says Nagler. "An infectious disease specialist made the point that most kids in the U.S. receive two or three courses of antibiotics in infancy. Most of the treatments they receive are for viral infections, meaning, they're getting a treatment that serves no purpose."
What they're getting instead is the alteration and elimination of the bacteria that may keep allergens at bay. And that's just one of the problems that are associated with the overuse of antibiotics.
"There's a lot of reasons to cut back," says Nagler. "Not only food allergies, but so-called Diseases of Western Lifestyle seem to be increasing with the increasing use of antibiotics. There's also antibiotic resistance. It's not controversial to say that we need to be more judicious in our use of antibiotics."
rick6668
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playin4beer
Footballguy
Makes sense... my youngest has a severe peanut allergy... and has been on amoxicillin quite a few times since she was born..
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
This theory has been around for awhile, interesting study. My daughter also was on antibiotics repeatedly in her first year, from an infection at 24 hours old to multiple ear infections. Her poor immune system had no chance to develop properly, and I've never doubted, in retrospect, that it was a factor in her development of life threatening allergies to a variety of foods.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Thoughts on a scent free school zone? I know a local school that has a student with severe allergies and asthma that wants the school turned into a scent free building. No cologne, perfume, body spray, air fresheners or scented lotions allowed.
Eta this is a high school.
Eta this is a high school.
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Politician Spock
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Ilov80s
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You get suspended? I don't know
Ditkaless Wonders
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TTT for my good buddy Tim.
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