hmmm, what's the correlation

[chambom]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...riplein10years

[xmasbaby7]

I once read here on this forum—but could not find a source to back it up—that a form of peanut oil is used at some point in the manufacturing process of vaccines.

Does anyone have information on this?

[Deborah]

I don't think that peanut oil is currently used in vaccines, but aluminum is.

Aluminum adjuvants are used to get the immune system to react to the weakened bacterial or viral particles. Once you've got a reacting immune system, how do you keep it from reacting to other stuff that just happens to be around?

[xmasbaby7]

Right, Deborah, but I feel like there must be a specific reason why peanut protein is present at the time the body is responding the to adjuvants, and I don't believe it is just from diet. Granted, food allergies are becoming so much more rampant and encompassing, but the amount of peanut allergy now seems like there has to be a logical reason.

[ammiga]

I read that most people who are allergic to peanuts are not actually allergic to peanuts, but to a mold that they grow. The study showed that people (or some people) who were diagnosed as allergic to peanuts ate peanuts that were mold free had no reaction. I don't know how many times this study has been replicated or how reliable it is, but that was what I read. It may be more related to poor farming practices and pesticides than vaccines, or they may play off each other.

[Deborah]

I suspect that peanut allergies have been around for a long time. The change is in the large numbers affected. Something is making children hyper sensitive to things that most children used to be able to handle just fine.

As to the mold in peanuts, this is probably an ancient problem, because food storage problems go way back. Once people switched from hunting gathering to agriculture, health problems from unsafe food storage turned up.

Just occurred to me, to go a bit OT, food storage problems may have been the origin of beer and wine...and various other yummies...blue cheese, anyone?

Originally Posted by xmasbaby7

Right, Deborah, but I feel like there must be a specific reason why peanut protein is present at the time the body is responding the to adjuvants, and I don't believe it is just from diet. Granted, food allergies are becoming so much more rampant and encompassing, but the amount of peanut allergy now seems like there has to be a logical reason.