The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It
240The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It
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Overview
In the early 1990s, tens of thousands of children with severe peanut and food allergies arrived for kindergarten at schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.
The phenomenon of a life-threatening allergy in kids in only these countries occurred simultaneously, without warning, and it quickly intensified. The number of peanut allergic children in the United States alone went from virtually none to about two million in just twenty years. As these children have aged, the combined number of American adults and children allergic to peanuts has grown to a total of four million.
How and why has this epidemic occurred? In The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Heather Fraser explains:
Precisely when the peanut allergy epidemic began
How a child-specific allergy epidemic happened before, at the close of the nineteenth century
That in the early twentieth century doctors including the 1913 Nobel Prize in medicine winner identified vaccination as the cause of the first pediatric allergy epidemic impacting 50 percent of children
That more than one hundred years of medical literature describes how vaccination creates allergy to what is in the shot, air, or body at the time of injection
How changes in US vaccination legislation sparked the allergy epidemic in children
Fraser also highlights alternative medicines and explores issues of vaccine safety and other food allergies, making this fully updated second edition a must-read for every parent, teacher, and health professional.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781632203571 |
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Publisher: | Skyhorse |
Publication date: | 08/18/2015 |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Introduction: The Problem of Peanut Allergy 1
Part 1 The Mystery of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
Chapter 1 From Idiosyncrasy to Multibillion-Dollar Industry 11
Chapter 2 Risk Factors 24
Geography 25
Peanut Consumption 27
Atopy: Eczema & Asthma 33
Birch Pollen Allergy 34
Th1/Th2 Paradigm Dysregulation 35
Age of Onset 37
Birth Month 37
Gender 38
Race 39
Mode of Delivery and Intestinal Flora 40
Maternal Age at Delivery 41
Socioeconomic Status 41
Large Head Circumference 43
Heredity 44
Immune System Overload 45
Vaccination 46
Ear Infections, Antibiotics & Gut Flora 47
Genetically Modified Foods & Herbicides 49
The Nocebo Effect & Owning Your Body 50
"Outgrowing" Peanut Allergy 51
Summary of Risk Factors 52
Chapter 3 Theories 53
Broken-Skin Hypothesis 54
Ingestion Hypothesis 58
Toxin Hypothesis 60
Helminth Hypothesis 63
Hygiene Hypothesis 66
Expanded Hygiene Hypothesis 69
Part 2 A History of Mass Allergy
Chapter 4 Rediscovering Anaphylaxis 75
Justified Behavior in the First Lancet Vaccination 76
A Framework for Mass Vaccination 82
The Neglected Role of the Needle: Discovering the Twin Relationship of Immunity & Allergy 87
Serum Sickness: A Precedent for an Allergy Epidemic in Children 89
Discovery of Food Anaphylaxis 92
The Origins of the Ingestion Hypothesis 94
The First Outbreak of Food Anaphylaxis 98
Chapter 5 The History of Peanut Allergy 101
Peanut Oil in Penicillin: Not the 'Smoking Gun' 101
Why Peanut? 104
Vaccine Adjuvants & Allergy: The Immunologist's Dirty Secret 108
Launching the Peanut Allergy Epidemic (1988-1994) 113
US Vaccine Injury Act creates liability free environment for vaccine makers 114
Sudden increase in vaccination coverage rates 115
Diseases of priority established, vaccine schedule in westernized countries expands and includes Hib 115
A suddenly competitive vaccine market spawns the Canadian PENTA, an unlicensed 5 in 1 119
The new Vitamin K1 injection, further expanding the schedule 121
The epidemic of severe food allergy in children arrives 122
Part 3 Peanut Allergy at the Crossover Point
Chapter 6 Absorbing the Costs 127
Ingredients: Aluminum, Food Proteins, and More 127
Slippery Labels but No Smoking Gun 130
Homology of Peanut and Haemophilus Influenzae Type B 132
Vaccine Antigens as an Adjuvant in Creating Peanut Allergy 133
Toxicity of Hib-DPT in Creating Allergy 133
The Australian Example 135
The Vitamin Kl Prophylaxis 136
Idiosyncrasies: The Ability to Detoxify 138
Chapter 7 Rationalizations 141
The Crossover Point 141
Personal Postscript: Red Flags 149
PENTA Vaccine (1994-97), a Cautionary Tale for All Vaccine Consumers 151
Appendix 157
Notes 163
Index 212