Are you allergic to peanuts? If not, surely you know someone who is, one of those people who have to be at least 200km away from the nearest peanut or suffer a cardiac arrest, one of those people who swell and swell just get in touch with this fruit.The truth is that food allergies are very varied, and there are even some superextran allergies that constantly surprise us. But peanut allergy or peanut allergy deserves, among all these, a special place, first for being so frequent, but also for being so shocking , something that caught our attention in Mysterious, and therefore we decided to undertake an investigation and, after reading enough, we wrote this article.
So, are you allergic to peanuts? Yes? Do not? Read this note to find out why so many people are.
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Why do so many people suffer from peanut allergy?
Perhaps you think, in principle, nonsense, a laughable question, a simple allergy, but it is not.To put you in context, nothing more in the United States 1.8 million children suffer from allergy to peanut, and the number is increasing.So much so that from 1997 to 2008, the number of people suffering from peanut cheer tripled , and is quite common in places like Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
In addition, peanut allergy is one of the most common causes of food-induced asphyxiation : a real danger to the lives of children and adults if not they take the necessary forecasts immediately.
1.The peanut
The peanut or peanut is part of our daily life, there, in many of the foods we consume, in the form of butter of peanuts, as a peanut candy or simply as an additive to other foods to improve its flavor.For example, peanut butter is very popular in the United States , especially in those famous butter sandwiches of peanut and jelly.But peanuts are also used in many of the foods we consume daily, either to shape it (many industries use it to grow cakes and other desserts) or to flavor it.Is peanut one of the ingredients of dynamite?
Peanuts, although often associated with nuts, is a legume, the fruit of a pod from which these seeds so appreciated in gastronomy sprout.being so scarce of water, it is also associated with nuts, and is a Energetic food rich in fats and proteins.However, for people who are allergic to peanuts are a food that can be lethal. But why do so many people suffer from peanut allergy? It is not a Baladi issue, especially if one takes into account that by 1900 there was not a single person who suffered from peanut allergy in the United States, but today it is among the deadliest foods in the world.
2.Why are so many people allergic to peanuts?
To begin we have to say that currently there is no There is a unified theory regarding the increase in peanut allergy in the world, but several theories, given that none presents sufficient evidence to be definitive.The first of these theories about peanut allergy points out that food Modern food we eat represents a continuous attack on our immune system. And, given that some of these foods contain peanuts or derivatives, which are considered food allergens, that is, foods that favor the appearance of allergies, it is This is causing the rise in peanut allergy in the world.
Another one of theories about the increase in peanut allergy, and that follows from the first, refers to the way in which the one that processes the peanut. In the West (read mostly United States) the peanut is roasted, and this process alters its proteins generating in the human immune system these reactions , that is, peanut allergy.The defenders of this theory are based on the fact that in other countries, in China, for example, the peanut is boiled, which has kept the peanut allergy rates really low.In other Asian areas they eat cooked, raw or fried peanuts, and much more than in the West, and yet there are not so many people who suffer from a peanut allergy.
A third theory says that the increase in allergy Mani is due to the insufficient exposure to sunlight that children suffer today , due, among other things, to the enormous time they devote to video games and television, which causes the so-called technological injuries Vitamin D present in sunlight is essential for healthy development and body growth, and also causes the immune system to recognize certain substances and generate tolerance to them.When children spend less time outdoors, a severe vitamin D deficiency can occur, and their metabolisms can begin to feel like a protein of peanuts.
Another of the theories has to do with vaccines.And many vaccines are made with excipients derived mainly from peanut oil. Since it is a fairly oil cheap to produce, the refined oil of this dried fruit was widely adopted during the 1960s to make vaccines for its effective preservative capacity.In fact, it is in the 90's when the highest incidence of this allergy appears, perhaps due to the expansion every time Larger of childhood vaccines.
However, a final theory indicates that the increase in peanut allergy is precisely due to the low exposure that children have to peanuts.As? Yes, as you read it, don't you understand? Don't worry, we don't get it at first, so here we explain it to you.
3.Peanut allergy can be caused by...the absence of peanuts
In view of the increase in peanut allergy, many researchers have launched themselves to investigate the fact from all its branches.It is the case, for example, of the researchers of the King's College of London, who during years they carried out a study in which they followed exhaustively about 640 babies , which they started studying when they were only between 4 and 10 months old.
And what was it? This studio? Well, the researchers decided to give half of these children to eat peanuts regularly, while the other half did not give them peanuts , and so they let the years go by.The children grew up, turned one year, then two, then three, then four and finally they reached 5 years of age, when the scholars decided to stop the study to analyze the data collected until then.
At this point, the researchers decided expose all these children to contact with the peanut.So what happened? For the unexpected: that of the group that had been in regular contact with the peanut only 3.2% developed peanut allergy, while the other group 17% grew up with peanut allergy. So let's say, in proportions: six times more than the group that was exposed to peanuts frequently.
But what does this suggest? Well, specialists seem to indicate that exposing the imunological system of the child from an early age to various substances considered allergens can cause the child to develop greater resistance to allergies , and, therefore, that the increase in peanut allergy may be due, precisely, to the little contact that children have with this food since their early childhood.
The question is still curious because, precisely in England, the Pediatric Association had recommended, Since 2009, the exposure of children to peanuts has been delayed until three years, an issue that was in stark contradiction to all figures, since the incidence of peanut allergies is much higher in countries where you eat for the first time being older, than in countries where since childhood it is a custom.Curious: There are more allergies in developed countries than in developing countries.
4.The dangers of a peanut allergy attack
Allergies are almost everything, it is a very frequent and, moreover, mysterious to science, which has not been able to decipher why some people suffer from allergies and others do not.The funny thing is that peanut allergy, specifically, seems to be causing remarkably violent immune reactions , perhaps because it contains proteins that are not present in other foods.
Peanut allergy occurs when an individual's immune system identifies the components of mani as daninas, not because they are dannins in themselves, but by an error of the human body.When this occurs, the body releases various substances into the bloodstream, to "defend itself" of the attack, which is usually translated into symptoms that can range from mild, such as simple itching, to severe, such as anaphylaxis or asphyxiation , which, if a way to control the allergy is not sought , can kill the individual.That is why peanut allergy is no joke.
Now, this contact with the peanut does not necessarily have to be direct for the affected person to suffer a attack. While the cause The most frequent of an allergy attack is eating peanuts, sometimes simple contact with the peanut skin can lead to an allergic reaction, and even more, the consumption of a food that, during processing, was exposed or in contact with peanuts, it can also trigger a severe reaction.Even, and this is even more serious, an allergic reaction can be triggered by inhaling dust or aerosols that contain peanuts.
Now, you know, the Peanut or peanut allergy is not something we should take as a joke, but something that should worry us a lot.Did you like this article? Do you know any other allergy equally serious? Leave your opinion in the comments, we will be looking forward to reading you!
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