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patrickl:
I didn't know about Honey being bad. Scary. I did hear about peanuts being bad for small children, but then I wonder who gives their baby or toddler peanuts.
Talking about food and their effects on kids. I recently saw a documentary about how food can bring out ADD in kids. In a large percentage of cases they could trace back the ADD to certain foods. They put a group of (ADD) kids on a special diet where they rotate the ingredients for the menu every week. That way they can figure out which foods cause the ADD. For instance, they showed a kid who would go wild and violent after eating grapes (IIRC even after one grape).
Just to be clear, this wasn't the Southpark episode about ADD :P
shmokes:
--- Quote from: patrickl on February 19, 2007, 09:00:31 pm ---
but then I wonder who gives their baby or toddler peanuts.
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Off the top of my head, Honey Nut Cheerios comes to mind, though those are almonds, not peanuts. Anyway, probably very few parents would be stupid enough to give their infant a peanut that they could easily choke on, if not develop a serious allergy to, but there are a lot of products with peanuts in them that aren't so obvious, especially ones that just contain peanut oil!
Really any nuts given before the 1st birthday dramatically increases the kid's chances of developing a serious nut allergy, but I think peanuts allergies have a tendency to be more severe and maybe more common than many of the others. For example, I've met quite a few people who have a walnut allergy, but it hasn't been a huge issue for any of them. My two friends with a peanut allergy, however, are afraid that they will simply die if they eat anything with peanuts in them.
shardian:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 19, 2007, 10:13:46 pm ---
My two friends with a peanut allergy, however, are afraid that they will simply die if they eat anything with peanuts in them.
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For some people, it is that serious. In school systems it has gotten to the point where children are banned from bringing pb&j sandwiches for lunch for fear of a peanut allergy kid swapping them or something.
I would be interested to see if the growing number of peanut allergies is related to babies fed formula.
ChadTower:
My brother used to occasionally go absolutely freakin ballistically uncontrollable at school when he was really small. They had no idea what it was, he was a good kid, then some days he'd be a major problem. We eventually discovered that he was allergic to the dye in Kool-Aid. It would make him go nuts almost immediately. Stopped the Kool-Aid, he was fine, give him Kool-Aid, boom you're in for a long day.
There are some kids with peanut allergies that will simply die. Those kids are rare, though. The problem is you don't want to find out the hard way which kids those happen to be. Most child care facilities have banned peanuts and schools have designated "peanut free" classes and sections of the cafeteria. Most kids will never have a problem but it's just too easy for a kid with an bad allergy to pick up a brownie with subtle hidden nuts in it and wind up in a coma.
DrewKaree:
Shmokes, you DID try violently shaking her to straighten her out, right? ;)
Mebbe a swat on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper?
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