someone should post an archive link for this to avoid all the adds, I'm in the car so it's not easy for me rn.
Allergies got me so fucked up. I once watched this video about a doctor treating deadly peanut allergies with microdosing peanuts.
I'm thankfully not allergic to anything, but it makes me wonder how these work and if its related to the diets we feed babies. If it is actually related to a lack of diverse foods in early childhood, it just makes me angry that there are folks walking around who can be killed by a simple nut or seed.
wtf is going on with allergies, man.
The best evidence seems to be exactly that: very poor diet diversity in early childhood.
It greatly upsets me that there aren't baby foods/formulas/advice with essentially microdosing common allergens to make kids not at risk of death constantly. It seems like such a silly problem, with dire consequence, and the solution seems to only make it worse by restricting these things more so they're more easily avoided.
"Among SPT-negative infants, prevalence of PA at 60 months of age was 13.7% in the avoidance group and 1.9% in the consumption group (P < 0.001) Among SPT-positive infants, prevalence of PA was 35.3% in the avoidance group and 10.6% in the consumption group (P = 0.004)"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522364/
Just found this, didn't have time to read a ton though.
My mother once "tested" a toddler to see whether he was allergic to shellfish by rubbing shrimp on his leg.
I'm amazed he's still alive.
That seems somewhat fine? Don’t doctors do exactly that with fancy machine? Or am I your mom :horror:
Rubbing a dietary allergen on the surface of your unbroken skin is usually not going to be enough to trigger a histamine reaction, hence the fancy machinery.
Probably. Truly wonderful, the mind of a lead-poisoned boomer.
Personally I believe that food should be distributed solely in a cafeteria setting so that it would be easier to exclude certain foods from peoples diets.
A la carte restaurants are fairly bourgeois and inefficient. Having to be seated, order food from a worker, then food being prepared by a worker, delivered to your table, then cleaned up after is a lot of effort for a person/small group, whereas a cafeteria setting allows the hungry to choose whatever they want to eat according to their preferences. Food can also be made in larger quantities instead of individual portions.
Also personal kitchens are bad since there’s a lot of waste. Refrigerators and stoves are incredibly intensive on energy, people when in control of their own food are wasteful, having something like food available in someone’s domicile just makes people more socially isolated and atomized.
I think that everyone should be forced to live in a brutalist styled apartment block, first floor should have communal space for food preparation and recreation like computers and tvs. The amount of personal space someone truly needs is essentially zero. We need to condition future generations to be okay we nudity and crowded spaces. Zero personal space is necessary for society to end global warming.
first floor should have communal space for food preparation and recreation like computers and tvs.
Tell me you don't jack off without telling me you don't jack off
Communal spaces are big win, would only be possible by raising the next generation to grok with it.
The communal nut room.
Have a chat with your neighbours about your porno preferences.
Communal cooking spaces are cool, communal schlicking zone is bad.
Yeah I watch tv fully nude, if you don't like it go to another brutalist rec center
Wait, I swear this was a mini struggle session at some point and it turned into people talking like they were building little rat enclosures to enforce diets on people and then it got too complicated with trying to figure out how many individual kitchens each apartment complex should provide for allergic or otherwise dietarily restricted folks to cook their own stuff with.
adding an allergen to a product which previously lacked it should be criminal, phase out common allergens as recognized foods at all
