Quote from: PurpleCat on December 26, 2013, 10:17:38 AM
Some families are dealing with some very unusual food allergies.   To me "the top 8" seems old fashion.  We just had a child visit us with allergies to both chicken and meat!

Lol ... yes, to me, the "top 8" is sounding more and more like "the earth is flat".

  :hiding:I kept cases of roasted peanuts in the cabinet in my office - it was my go to snack every day - the only thing that did not upset my stomach and actually made me feel like I ate something!

I ate everything DD is allergic to.

I have one with many food allergies and asthma and 2 without either.

I don't expect scientists and doctors to ever really know why some people have food allergies and others do not.

The more people I talk to the more I believe this.  Some families are dealing with some very unusual food allergies.   To me "the top 8" seems old fashion.  We just had a child visit us with allergies to both chicken and meat!

I always thought DD was bizarre being anapylactic to some fruits.  Well in the last month alone, I've met 2 people with the same problem to pineapple.  Clearly as a species, we are evolving to something else.  My 7th grade science teacher made some predictions in a fun class about the future of the human race (this is back in the 70's - when my kids think we were dinosaurs since we did not have computers in our home, I had a close and play and only one family TV and for us that was Black and White....and our video game was the fabulous Atari table tennis!.  One of his things was that humans would have small mouths because their sustenance would come in pill form, that we would no longer shop for, cook or eat food as we were doing.  He also predicted that we would communicate differently, less talking.....well, I see that one already when I tell DD to phone her friends or better yet, go to someones house! not text and she looks at me all cross eyed.  LOL!

So maybe that is the future.....no more "food" because we are allergic to everything!  I know that is not funny....there are some children I have read about who can not eat....they have to drink special formulas to be healthy..........just thinking out loud....

With DD, I ate occasional pb&js for lunch.  Especially after te first trimester (couldn't stomache much at all with morning sickness).  No allergy.  With DS, I are pb&js for lunch about three times a week.  That was what DD was having, so easy to just make two and eat one myself.  He got the allergy.  I agree that it is luck of the draw to some extent.  I wonder, though if those who avoided were a higher risk to begin with, resulting in the higher number who were allergic?

I loved me some PB&J while pregnant and nursing DS1 - no nut allergies but allergies to wheat, rye, barley and egg.

Avoid PB while preggers with DS2 (at the time DS1 was testing positive to peanuts).  Delayed exposure with him (per current recommendations regarding pregnancy and infants).  No allergy issues until 2 which have mostly resolved but we are left with a RAST high enough for peanuts that the allergist won't challenge.

DD - same diet as with DS1 and no allergies.

Having said that, we are the insanely atopic family who apparently in researching further back and asking more questions about my family and DH's family, people weren't kidding when they said we shouldn't breed (yes, someone said that to me when I was preggers with DD).

pb thruout #1 ... PA daughter; not a trace of PN during #2 ... NKA daughter.

i just do not buy this.  although it *might* be true in some instances (and who knows what differentiates these cases), i don't like the way it is presented in this study like it is some huge breakthrough.

I ate pb through both pregnancies ...one pa, one not. I agree with the luck of the draw statement.

Quote from: GoingNuts on December 23, 2013, 04:21:27 PM
I was a heavy nut consumer during pregnancy with DS2, and continued eating lots of nuts/PN butter while nursing as well due to blood sugar issues.

Um, clearly his early exposure didn't help, LOL.

Luck of the draw?

same here.  Ice cream, too.   

Quote from: CMdeux on December 24, 2013, 09:18:00 AM
Yeah-- I suspect that there may be vastly different rules on this one for parents who are atopic versus those who are not.

{sigh}

I'm pretty sure that I'm in a screwed situation for this.  Have talked it over with the allergist, since we've been working on managing meds and getting things changed to be as safe as possible for DH and I to try to have children.  We pretty much agreed that with as much as my diet is limited, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to start avoiding more things on the off chance that it may prevent allergies, especially since it has been our mission to keep most of those things in my diet relatively regularly to try to keep me from sensitizing to more things.  If someone could tell me for sure that something would work, or even likely, I would do it, but no one seems to be able to do that.

It is highly likely that our potential kids will have some type of atopic condition.  Maybe it will be food allergies, maybe it will be something else.  But I am probably more prepared than most to deal with food allergies or really, most any of the allergies, asthma, eczema crowd.

Yeah-- I suspect that there may be vastly different rules on this one for parents who are atopic versus those who are not.

{sigh}

DD's first known exposure resulted in massive (grade IV) anaphylaxis from about 100-150 mg of ingested pb, so I'm rather thinking that all that prenatal exposure didn't do HER so much good.   

I ate a BabyRuth bar about twice a week when I had a late lab to teach and was on my feet moving for 4-6 hours a stretch.  Other than that, I didn't really eat PB.  We had to buy the jar that almost killed DD before her first birthday.  (Yeah-- long story).

Too bad it didn't work on ds

We could play the game of "let's throw one study at another" and see which approach is left standing 

"Peanuts in the Home"
http://www.asthmaallergieschildren.com/2013/09/03/peanuts-in-the-home/

QuoteWhat a drag to think that a bowl of peanuts shared by an expectant mom and dad as they enjoy their remaining days as a couple in the run-up to delivery could result in sensitization in the months following the blessed event.

Not in my case. I ate a lot of peanuts and a normal amount of tree nuts when pregnant with  my pa/tna daughter. With the other two I avoided and they have no known allergies.

I call mild bull on this one. My mom had a PB&J every day when pregnant with me. But she also smoked while pregnant with me, so there was something else going on. I second everyone else, I think we need more info here...

hasnt the highest rate of nut allergy in infants has  been in the group of mothers with no atopic disease that avoided eating nuts during pregnancy?

which goes to show preg mums should turn a deaf ear to most of today's food health advice?


as human beings  we wouldnt be here without weak beer during the middle ages, as water was unsafe. of course the down side was that full adult life ended at 40, but still it makes you think doenst it?