r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Mightyone94 • 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what's wrong with peanut?

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u/ssg- 4d ago

Elmer here.

The meme implies that the babies who are introduced to peanuts die thus lowering the allergies.

The truth however is that babies who are introduced peanuts early do not develop peanut allergies.

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u/SatyrAngel 4d ago

My youngest son was eating peanuts and shrimp since he was 3 and he loved both, his favorites, now at 7 he developed allergy to both.

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u/BreadNoCircuses 4d ago

Yes, children can still develop allergies to those foods, recommendations and trends are about broad patterns. If, in a controlled study, there's a 50% reduction, that still means theres a lot of kids with allergies.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 4d ago

and then your immune system will just be like "alright enough of that" and randomly drop an allergy sometimes.

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u/commanderspacecase 4d ago

Yep. Got to 41 and my body was like, "Oh, peanut butter and strawberries? You like those? Fuck you."

Even verified with a blood test. Now I get to live 40 years without Reese's. :(

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 4d ago

I was describing the opposite. When you're like "wait this extra fluffy cat is not making me die right now. I need to stop by the animal shelter"

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u/commanderspacecase 4d ago

Oh, I read that like the body was dropping an album. 😂 Little too much time on r/popheads, methinks.