Well, that's enough for me. Thanks for the show! Bye ...

What said kid might look like ~20 years from now:



/Maybe he'll meet the Woz at work

I'm having a hard time finding any (cited) reports of anaphylaxis for a dairy allergy from skin contact. I hope this isn't the parent's overreaction marginalizing this girl from her peers. Otherwise, cool robot.

At my daughter's school, which is small-- only K-1, they have an entire lunch table set aside for peanut allergy kids. I don't recall any of those kids when I was in school, and there certainly wasn't a separate table.

What happened to the peanut allergy kids back then-- did we just let them die?

Wise_Guy: At my daughter's school, which is small-- only K-1, they have an entire lunch table set aside for peanut allergy kids. I don't recall any of those kids when I was in school, and there certainly wasn't a separate table.

What happened to the peanut allergy kids back then-- did we just let them die?

they were sent out into the wastelands where the wild peanuts roam looking for a meal.

Dave and his robot buddy, fighting crime!

There are much better ways to use a robot.

God damn you Charles Darwin, get off your lazy ass and finish your job already.

in school and not looking for sarah conner/

Meethos: God damn you Charles Darwin, get off your lazy ass and finish your job already.

You do realize Charles Darwin is dead?

jingks: I'm having a hard time finding any (cited) reports of anaphylaxis for a dairy allergy from skin contact. I hope this isn't the parent's overreaction marginalizing this girl from her peers. Otherwise, cool robot.

I had Diary allergies as a kid. it just sent my sinuses into over drive and made me snot all over the place.

inconvenient, yes, life threatening? hardly

"There are kids touching the desk with their breakfast hands,"

NOOOOO! ANYTHING BUT BREAKFAST HANDS!

Awesom-o has an idea for a book report

Wise_Guy: What happened to the peanut allergy kids back then-- did we just let them die?

Unknown. There may have been as many cases of peanut allergy, but some were not diagnosed, and those children may have died mysteriously of anaphylaxis of an unknown cause. There may have been fewer cases of peanut allergy, or the cases of peanut allergy may have been as numerous, but less severe. There is even a possibility that the allergies are the same in number and kind as they ever were, but the peanuts themselves are different.

The same goes for other allergies. We don't know for sure. We don't even fully understand the interaction between genetics and environment that leads to life-threatening allergies. So people do the best they can to protect themselves and their children, researchers keep researchin', and we keep going.

Best thing to do is to get your baby (
Desensitize

I read this during class not expecting to laugh.

Then I was struck by "breakfast hands".

This girl needs to harden the fark up, a "severe dairy allergy"?

Not that the robot isn't cool and all, but couldn't this problem have been solved with, oh, I don't know, e-mailing lecture notes and assignments?

grimnir: Wise_Guy: What happened to the peanut allergy kids back then-- did we just let them die?

Unknown. There may have been as many cases of peanut allergy, but some were not diagnosed, and those children may have died mysteriously of anaphylaxis of an unknown cause. There may have been fewer cases of peanut allergy, or the cases of peanut allergy may have been as numerous, but less severe. There is even a possibility that the allergies are the same in number and kind as they ever were, but the peanuts themselves are different.

The same goes for other allergies. We don't know for sure. We don't even fully understand the interaction between genetics and environment that leads to life-threatening allergies. So people do the best they can to protect themselves and their children, researchers keep researchin', and we keep going.

...or they just knew they had the allergies and stayed away from peanuts (and other foods) or anyone eating them, like they did when i was in grade-school. This is of course before we let it become acceptable to demonize everyone that did not have an allergy and still liked to eat these foods.

grimnir: Wise_Guy: What happened to the peanut allergy kids back then-- did we just let them die?

Unknown. There may have been as many cases of peanut allergy, but some were not diagnosed, and those children may have died mysteriously of anaphylaxis of an unknown cause. There may have been fewer cases of peanut allergy, or the cases of peanut allergy may have been as numerous, but less severe. There is even a possibility that the allergies are the same in number and kind as they ever were, but the peanuts themselves are different.

The same goes for other allergies. We don't know for sure. We don't even fully understand the interaction between genetics and environment that leads to life-threatening allergies. So people do the best they can to protect themselves and their children, researchers keep researchin', and we keep going.

Just from what I've gathered as a layperson, it sounds like allergies and severe allergies in particular are becoming more common, perhaps because we are living in cleaner environments and our immune systems are becoming confused.

I'm pretty sure that's what they said on House, anyway. They could have been talking about Lupus.

LiberalWeenie: Just from what I've gathered as a layperson, it sounds like allergies and severe allergies in particular are becoming more common, perhaps because we are living in cleaner environments and our immune systems are becoming confused.

It's hard to really say, because we don't have really good historical statistics on it. Personally, I don't think it's anything to do with sanitation, and more to do with other changes in the environment, like the increase in processed foods, etc.