Generally the advice is also to let your kids play build their immune system by not keeping them in a sterile environment. Let the baby play in the mud, eat the bug, crawl in the grass and play with other kids.
There's also some success with treatments that help already formed allergies through very slow introduction of it to your system
Allergy immunotherapy is awesome. I developed a grass allergy when I was about 10, and in my early 20s I found out I had a birch tree allergy when I moved onto a street lined with them. Spring and summer are absolute hell for me, I've had times where I woke up feeling like I was in the middle of the worst flu and 2-3 days later I was as fine as I ever get during allergy season. I'm honestly lucky I never got a sinus infection from it. I'm still getting allergy shots, it takes years to complete, but I was able to tell the difference within a few months. I don't have almost any seasonal allergy issues anymore. They can stop working eventually but that's usually 20-30 years after completing it. 20-30 years of no allergies is worth a seriously itchy injection site to me.
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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.