Children and Food Allergies

IGe tests aren't very accurate, apparently. But I wonder if the presence of "benign" antibodies is really so benign. Maybe it means that the gut permeability is too high. Either way, I probably wouldn't feed my children peanut butter. I love love love peanut butter and it's one of the non-paleo foods I truly miss, but peanut production is rife with mold problems from farm to fork and peanut butter is very high probably rancid PUFAS. I wonder if peanuts cause increased gut permeability that also leads to other allergies as inappropriate food constituents are allowed into the blood stream. Many people I know who are allergic to peanuts are allergic to otherwise harmless foods like shellfish. Of course I don't know that many people allergic to peanuts my age. Growing up, we didn't have special "peanut free" tables, but you'd be loathe to find a school without one these days. What things have changed? I ate crappy sugar-filled things growing up, but maybe it's because things are now full of gut-irritating white "whole" wheat.

Unfortuantely, I don't think these researchers are wondering about that. Their "happy ending":

The only way to determine whether Ellie was truly allergic was with a food challenge, which she finally passed last October. Ellie now enjoys kid-favorite peanut butter candy, crackers and granola bars. The family was able to ditch the epinephrine injections kept in case of emergency. Said Kampwerth, "It's a big relief."

Wow, what a relief that their child can enjoy sugar-loaded processed junk!