Comment by MagicMoonlight
4 years ago
Yes. It’s been proven that if you expose babies to all the allergens early on they never develop the allergy.
But not only that. If they already have the allergy, you can actually cure it by slowly building up exposure until they stop reacting to it.
> If they already have the allergy, you can actually cure it by slowly building up exposure until they stop reacting to it.
Very important to note that not everyone can be cured this way, it can be dangerous even fatal, and under medical supervision only. Far too many people think they can cure their own allergy, allergies aren't "real," or cases of grandparents trying to YOLO fix their grandkid by putting small amounts of e.g. peanuts in their food and causing airway obstruction.
This research is, undeniably, exciting, but people overstate it and act like we could just roll it out to everyone with allergies and they'd disappear (and that everyone who still has allergies is "choosing" to). That isn't at all where the science is at today.
I can't eat gluten. I ate plenty of wheat growing up, and suddenly developed a problem digesting it at 18. I was on a full-gluten diet when diagnosed and still felt sick all the time.
So, as someone who was exposed as a baby, and was pretty much doing maximal exposure therapy, you need to write better test cases.