• MonkRome@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Evidence shows that early exposure to potential allergies reduces the likelihood of getting that allergy. Since we’ve know this doctors have recommended early exposure to allergens, instead of avoiding them. Now that we no longer avoid peanuts before adolescence, the allergy is receding.

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    8 months ago

    I just wanna stop for a moment and say I really appreciate all the hard work you’re doing.

    Its really not the easiest to find news stories that are sincerely really good news, and not just a slight letup of something awful.

    Your posts make my timeline a much nicer place and I really appreciate it ❤️

    • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I have no idea but I think it’s just because of the difference in the way modern mothers think compared to mothers in the 90s and stuff. Modern mothers do not just blindly take medicine and stuff when they are pregnant. Sometimes medicines can have weird effects on the immune system and allergies can be developed when the immune system associates harmless things with disease. This is a wild guess, but I bet many of these people had peanut allergies because their mothers were taking antihistamines or something in the 90s while they were pregnant. It used to be considered safe and often recommended for mother’s to take a wide variety of medicine, but our understanding of medicine has advanced quite a bit since then, and we now understand the body as a far more dynamic and self balancing thing, and we weigh the risks of using drugs to be high. In modern times doctors will shy away from prescribing drugs to pregnant mothers unless there is something dangerous or particularly needed.

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            8 months ago

            No the above poster is right. Your wild guess is a wild guess and not based on the science which you could have googled.

            • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              8 months ago

              You should know what the concept of science is before you go using the word like your sacrificial cow. Google is one of the most anti scientific institutions on earth. You should never believe anything you read from Google.

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                8 months ago

                Google can directly lead you to the original sources and studies that have made these conclusions, dumb-dumb. They’re not saying to blindly listen to the AI overview, they’re saying to Google it and find the scientific studies that are publicly accessible instead of making wild guesses.

                • Jarix@lemmy.world
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                  8 months ago

                  Especially if you click on links that arent just the first 2 pages of sponsored content.

                  Cory Doctorow, who knows a thing or 2 about this, used kagi as his search engine(or did for a while) and says it uses google without a bunch of garbage results(though it also doesn’t exclusively use google for it’s results)