The great peanut allergy “scam”: How many families were broken because grandmother wanted to give peanuts to the 1 year old?

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[From the editorial:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/20/peanut-allergies-children-public-health-guidelines/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social)

>The journal Pediatrics published a [study](https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2024-070516/204636/Guidelines-for-Early-Food-Introduction-and?autologincheck=redirected) on Monday showing that peanut allergies in the United States have dropped by more than 40 percent in recent years. Scientists believe that’s largely thanks to changes in federal guidelines a decade ago that encouraged parents to introduce foods containing peanuts to babies in their first year of life.

So keeping peanuts away from the growing baby significantly increased the chance of the child getting peanut allergy? How many parents listened to their doctors and stopped contact with the grandparents because the grandparents wanted the kid to eat peanuts early like in the “olden” days?

Will the doctors apologize? Will the kid’s parents apologize to the grandparents?

Joey Diaz has a funny skit about this. All about exposure(micro dosing) on something until your body doesn’t have the reaction to it.