>And how do you suppose most parents find out that their kid has a peanut allergy? Do you have your kids allergy tested on a regular basis? Most find out the hard way, and if they're lucky, there is no real damage.

I think the initial reaction is practically never so severe - it probably builds up. Or maybe it goes unaccounted when it happens? There are diagnoses out there which are actually covering the unexplained causes.

And no, we never had our kids regularly tested for any allergy, but then my wife is a doctor, she'd notice any reaction. The end result is that we're, overall, unfashionably healthy and even more unfashionably allergy-free. To the point that when people start talking about their allergies we draw a blank and can't be friendly and join the conversation.

>>Dangerous as it is, shouldn't it have been dealt with long ago, like - decades ago? I don't understand that part.
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>Frankly, I don't either. I suspect, but only suspect, that as our world becomes more and more inimical to human life, some people's systems develop adversity to certain stimuli. I don't really have any idea, but for example, asthma is not a bad case in point. It's always been around, but certainly not in anything like the numbers we see today. I attribute the fantastic growth in asthma cases to the increasingly hostile environment we live in.

So do I - was just asking for confirmation ;).