The Urban Legend: Peanut Allergy

[waltky]

possum likes peanut butter w/ chocolate chips...

Allergic to Peanuts? Researchers on Track to Change It
August 26, 2014 ~ There is promising news for people with peanut allergies: researchers at a U.S. university have found a way to alter the nuts to make them hypoallergenic.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA said in a blog post Tuesday that researchers at North Carolina A&T State University were able to reduce the allergens in peanuts by 98 to 100 percent by treating them with an enzyme. The enzyme targets the proteins that trigger peanut allergies.

The USDA says the treatment is effective whether peanuts are whole, broken into pieces or ground into flour. The research also shows promise in wheat. The head of the research team, Dr. Jianmei Yu says it is very important to find a way to make peanuts less or non-allergenic, as it is difficult for those with the allergy to avoid exposure.

A director within the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Jan Singleton says the research is also important "because peanuts can be a valuable addition to a healthy diet." The USDA says a peanut allergy is one of the most common causes of food-related anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal reaction.

Allergic to Peanuts Researchers on Track to Change It

 

[Delta4Embassy]

possum likes peanut butter w/ chocolate chips...

Allergic to Peanuts? Researchers on Track to Change It
August 26, 2014 ~ There is promising news for people with peanut allergies: researchers at a U.S. university have found a way to alter the nuts to make them hypoallergenic.

Louis C.K. had a thing about nut allergies... Warning, gallows humor to follow:

I’ll give you an example, okay? Like of course, of course, children who have nut allergies need to be protected, of course. We have to segregate their food from nuts, have their medication available at all times, and anybody who manufactures or serves food needs to be aware of deadly nut allergies, of course, but maybe. Maybe if touching a nut kills you, you’re supposed to die. Of course not, of course not, of course not. Jesus.

I have a nephew who has that. I’d be devastated if something happened to him. But maybe, maybe if we all just do this for one year, we’re done with nut allergies for ever...
Louis CK - Of Course But Maybe - Oh My God

 

[Darlene]

Have you people ever wondered what is causing the food allergies?
Please consider this:
InsidersHealth.com

Can Vaccines Cause Immune Dysfunction Resulting in Allergies Asthma and Anaphylaxis - Anaphylaxis Allergies and Asthma - Health Risks - Vaccination Risk Awareness Network

Rise In Childhood Food Allergies Being Linked To Vaccinations

Vaccines Cause Allergies 8211 Dr. Dave Mihalovic The Refusers

Is there a Connection Between Vaccines and Food Allergies Journey To Crunchville
Direct Evidence From the CDC that Vaccines Cause Food Allergies The Liberty Beacon

 

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1. Due to the severe peanut allergy of a first grade girl, students of Edgewater Elementary are required to wash their hands before entering their classroom in the morning and after lunch. They were also told that they had to rinse out their mouths after each meal. The teachers surpervising the handwashing and mouthrinsing were required to wipe down the desks continuously with Clorox wipes. All peanut products are banned at the school and no outside food is allowed to be brought into school holiday parties. In addition, a peanut sniffing dog was brought in two weeks ago. Rumors that children’s mouths were being wiped with disinfectant were quickly dispelled.

2. Parents, completely exasperated, have been protesting outside the school.


3. District spokeswoman Nancy Wait of Volusia County Schools has said that the school is obligated to follow guidelines under the Federal Disabilities Act. “We have moved so far beyond isolating children with disabilities,” she says. “We are required to provide her with an education and to make accommodations for her disability,” she told ParentDish.

4. the recent move by the school to enforce such a strict regimen have embittered parents who decided enough was enough and took to the streets outside the school in protest.

5. No one wants any harm to come to this first grader. Through no fault of her own, she had acquired this food allergy. But what are the chances of peanut allergy death of actually occurring?

6. 150-200 were the initial numbers that kept reoccurring in my research of food allergy deaths. But upon reading Meredith Broussard’s research in her article, “Food Allergy Deaths: Less Common Than You Think” in the Huffington Post, I discovered that the 150-200 death estimate comes from the media resource kit of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a lobbying and educational group headed by a former marketing executive at Dey Pharmaceuticals. Dey Pharmaceuticals is the maker of the EpiPen adrenaline injector, a device that millions of food-allergic patients keep on hand in case of emergency.

7. Data on food allergy deaths from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). They’ve been tracking food allergy deaths since 1998, but this number isn’t publicly available in CDC databases because it is statistically insignificant. The CDC press office which revealed something very surprising. Eleven out of 2.5 million deaths were from food allergies in 2005, the last year for which this data is available. That’s eleven deaths from food allergies in total.

a. More deaths had resulted from lawnmowing accidents. An estimated 90 -100 people die from bee stings (and this number is actually underreported due to mistaken diagnoses as heart attacks, sun strokes or other causes). But we don’t tell people not to mow their lawns or refrain from going outdoors.

8. Using questionable data, and the 'crisis spin,' rules, regulations, requirements are added, what de Tocqueville called 'soft despotism,' and described as "“an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate” and aims to "relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.” How? "... it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform..."

9. And not to belittle the eleven people that die each year from food allergies, they are the ones that need to take the proper precautions, not the rest of the 311,046,781 people in this country.

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None of these kids would possibly have an allerrgy to dog hair? Clorox?

Good lord, pet and chemical allergies are far more common than peanut.

Carry on