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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to make the Covid / Flu comparison... [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Let them live their entire life in AC and not feed them every food you can between 6 and 18 months.
That is when the immune system is able to best respond to new things with no adverse reactions.
In my moms day in the south peanuts were everywhere. Papaw grew them. They were the most common snack. Their dust covered everything in harvest season and there was no AC. So what was outside was inside. Know how many people died from peanuts? None. Same with other substances.
I see it in my cousins kids. The ones still in rural areas where there families farm and kids are outside all day from almost birth they have no allergies. The kids in cities that have lived their in good southern AC often do. Nothing life threatening. But some.
I was raised kind of feral. Running around with no shoes or shirt all summer long. Coming home so dirty mother would make us strip to our underwear(which only meant taking off my shorts) and spraying us down with a hose before we could come in the house.
We have photos of mother in the garden with me as an infant in a carry crib next to her while she worked. Shes sucker and tie up some tomato plants then move my crib up. Not really a crib, but kind of a little bed with a handle. Never had kids so not sure what it is called. I have no allergies.
Something that does scare me a little is adult onset seafood allergies which can be life threatening. Ive met 2 people who after spending a life of eating seafood almost died after it kicked it. I often eat self caught seafood in areas far away from medical care so talked to my doctor about getting an EpiPen for the first aid kit in my truck and boat. But it would be $700 like you said. So have not got one.
We scallop off the super clean west coast of north central Florida. Sometimes find oysters or even Penn Shells and regularly eat them raw on the boat. If the wife or I had a reaction there, we would be dead. EpiPens cost $30 to make. Its bullshit what they can charge.