@PNS I knew a lady with a peanut allergy. She had lived with all her life, but at 60 something she was at a ladies Bible study chatting it up and when a plate of peanut butter cookies was passed around. She absent mindedly took a bite - and she was dead a few minutes later. Paramedics too late, and no one had an epi-pen or knew where hers was.
@PNS @customdesigned I think it is the interaction between childhood vaccine adjuvants and exposure to peanuts/peanut butter: the adjuvants are in there to stimulate the immune system, and along comes the peanut proteins. Forever after the body associates those proteins as being under attack, and over-reacts.
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Peanuts require a huge amount of pesticides to resists weevils and such.
Insofar as babies will eat their weight in PB in a year, they're developing a chemical sensitivity.
Hold off giving your babies PB until 4 or so.