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From: Arthur Brain on 15 May 2007 18:48

Kids mistakenly diagnosed with nut allergy

May 16, 2007 05:33am
Article from: AAP

HUNDREDS of Australian parents may be worrying needlessly that their
children have a peanut allergy, because they may have been incorrectly
diagnosed, a new study found.

Researchers have discovered that about one third of children who
returned a positive result in a skin-prick test were actually able to
eat peanuts safely.

Sydney Children's Hospital immunologist and University of New South
Wales researcher Brynn Wainstein said the results show parents should
not automatically accept a nut allergy diagnosis.

"Because peanut allergies are potentially serious, requiring all sorts
of restrictions, families can become very anxious when, in fact, some
of these families may be worrying unnecessarily," Dr Wainstein said.

The study involved 84 children who had been diagnosed with a peanut
allergy without ever having eaten the nuts.

The children were thought to suffer an allergy because after having
traces of peanut introduced into a small scratch made on their skin
with a needle, they developed a hive larger than 8mm, which is the
commonly accepted cut off size.

But the researchers found that about one third of children who then
took a "peanut challenge", in which they ate peanuts while under
observation in hospital, had no reaction.

After reviewing the results, the researchers found those children who
were not allergic had all developed hives smaller than 13mm.

The result indicated the actual cut off level, when the test was
performed in their clinic - and likely many other Australian clinics -
was higher than the accepted standard.

The researchers concluded that the test was "very subjective", and may
be affected by variables such as the equipment used and the pressure
the doctor places on the skin.

"Essentially, the take home message was that if you don't know your
child has a peanut allergy ... and the doctor says your child is
allergic to peanut, you need to say: 'Are you sure?'," Dr Wainstein
said.

He said for many parents it may be worth putting their children
through the peanut challenge, which was the "gold standard" of
testing.

"The only way to know, in some cases, whether the test means you're
allergic is to do a food challenge," he said.

About one in 200 children will have an allergic reaction to peanuts by
the age of five, in which their blood pressure drops and their tongue
and throat swell, blocking the airway.

The reaction is potentially fatal, but can be counteracted if the
child is quickly given an adrenaline injection.

Dr Wainstein said the researchers were further studying skin tests in
an attempt to see if the size of the hive could predict children who
would have severe a allergic reaction.

From: Arthur Brain on 15 May 2007 23:06

Ördög wrote:
> Arthur Brain decided:

> > HUNDREDS of Australian parents may be worrying needlessly that their
> > children have a peanut allergy, because they may have been incorrectly
> > diagnosed, a new study found.
>
> Possibility so. But one missed peanut allergy can kill a child as sure
> (but more horribly) than a bullet in the head.
>
> > Researchers have discovered that about one third of children who
> > returned a positive result in a skin-prick test were actually able to
> > eat peanuts safely.

Well, I had always wondered how come every other child these days has
some weird-arsed Allergy or Syndrome, whereas when *I* was a kid,
*nobody* was allergic to peanuts.

Well, now we know - "peanut allergy" is a form of mass hysteria among
the same kind of sub-educated morons who refuse to get their kids
vaccinated.

I mean, what kind of an idiot is going to subject their children to
one of these clearly-useless scratch-allergy tests, anyway?

They obviously *want* their children to be ill, even if they have to
go out and invent an illness to project onto them - and I'm sure all
this wanting your precious little wimpy kids to be ill must in the
long run *cause* your children to fall ill - it's a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
(Or is that Munchhausen-by-Proxy Syndrome? If that Syndrome is
currently on the list of "real" syndromes this week....)

From: Stan on 15 May 2007 23:47

"Arthur Brain" <arthur_brain1(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1179284804.258574.221640(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

(snipped)
Well, I had always wondered how come every other child these days has
some weird-arsed Allergy or Syndrome, whereas when *I* was a kid,
*nobody* was allergic to peanuts.

# Right. Same here. That's what I thought too. I'd never heard of
allergies until well into the 1960s. Never existed during the war years.
So it seems to me like a post war chemical additive in food.
But someone pointed out that at one time peanuts were something you only ate
at Christmas, you know, the bowl on the table when the relly's came round.
Now the kids eat it often on toast or for school sandwiches, and it was
pointed out that this increased the potential to pick up whatever it is that
triggers the allergy. Treated peanuts, and roasted, apparently are more
prone to triggering the reaction.

It may not be the peanut...maybe some additive in treating and preserving
them. Just a thought. I would look into it anyway. I don't think a
child's lips swelling up like a balloon can be the result of mass hysteria.
If the lips, what about the poor kids throat.






From: Petzl on 16 May 2007 01:09
On Wed, 16 May 2007 03:47:48 GMT, "Stan" <ecreipt(a)bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

>
>"Arthur Brain" <arthur_brain1(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:1179284804.258574.221640(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
>(snipped)
>Well, I had always wondered how come every other child these days has
>some weird-arsed Allergy or Syndrome, whereas when *I* was a kid,
>*nobody* was allergic to peanuts.
>
># Right. Same here. That's what I thought too. I'd never heard of
>allergies until well into the 1960s. Never existed during the war years.
>So it seems to me like a post war chemical additive in food.
>But someone pointed out that at one time peanuts were something you only ate
>at Christmas, you know, the bowl on the table when the relly's came round.
>Now the kids eat it often on toast or for school sandwiches, and it was
>pointed out that this increased the potential to pick up whatever it is that
>triggers the allergy. Treated peanuts, and roasted, apparently are more
>prone to triggering the reaction.
>
> It may not be the peanut...maybe some additive in treating and preserving
>them. Just a thought. I would look into it anyway. I don't think a
>child's lips swelling up like a balloon can be the result of mass hysteria.
>If the lips, what about the poor kids throat.
>
I were led to believe peanuts were genetically engineered years back
which is the strongly suspected cause of today's peanut "allergies"

The problem is today the altered ones cannot be identified from
original?

Petzl
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From: Julie Bove on 16 May 2007 01:15

"Arthur Brain" <arthur_brain1(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1179284804.258574.221640(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

�rd�g wrote:
> Arthur Brain decided:

> > HUNDREDS of Australian parents may be worrying needlessly that their
> > children have a peanut allergy, because they may have been incorrectly
> > diagnosed, a new study found.
>
> Possibility so. But one missed peanut allergy can kill a child as sure
> (but more horribly) than a bullet in the head.
>
> > Researchers have discovered that about one third of children who
> > returned a positive result in a skin-prick test were actually able to
> > eat peanuts safely.

Well, I had always wondered how come every other child these days has
some weird-arsed Allergy or Syndrome, whereas when *I* was a kid,
*nobody* was allergic to peanuts.

Well, now we know - "peanut allergy" is a form of mass hysteria among
the same kind of sub-educated morons who refuse to get their kids
vaccinated.

I mean, what kind of an idiot is going to subject their children to
one of these clearly-useless scratch-allergy tests, anyway?

They obviously *want* their children to be ill, even if they have to
go out and invent an illness to project onto them - and I'm sure all
this wanting your precious little wimpy kids to be ill must in the
long run *cause* your children to fall ill - it's a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
(Or is that Munchhausen-by-Proxy Syndrome? If that Syndrome is
currently on the list of "real" syndromes this week....)

My kid has a peanut allergy and is allergic to 6 other foods as well. She
had a RAST test and not a prick test.

I didn't want her to be sick. But she was. Sick all the time! And could
not concentrate in school because of it. We finally found one Dr. who
decided to test for food allergies. Her near constant sinus and ear
infections were caused by allergies. That's what they told us. Took her to
two allergists. But did they test for any food allergies? No! Just
inhalants.

Since changing her diet she has had only one ear infection. She is not sick
to her stomach all the time like she used to be. And she is doing MUCH
better in school. She says she feels a lot better too.


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