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"djs0302" > wrote:


> When I was going to grade school in the 70's you never heard one
> incident of a kid being allergic to peanut butter. While some of these
> peanut allergies actually do occur I think a lot of parents say their
> kids have a peanut allergy because they want the attention. If someone
> is truly allergic to peanuts then they should also be allergic other
> legumes such as peas. It's only been in recent years that you've
> really started hearing about the problem. I did read somewhere that if
> a nursing mother eats a lot of peanut butter she can give a peanut
> allergy to her baby. Luckily I was born during the time when formula
> was the baby food of choice.

Many years ago our son died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). A
surprising number of babies die from this every year. We did some
reading about it, and it was reported that the frequency was decreasing.
Why was that? Because SIDS just means that they don't know why the baby
died, it just did. As medicine advanced, they could pinpoint the exact
cause of death.

It could be that just as many kids died of peanut allergies in years
past, but nobody knew the cause of death. I believe the reason given
for death for those no longer babies is "natural causes", when they
don't know why the heck the person died. Just my theory.