Ground Nut Oil's Effect on Hair

I don't know, but like a dust mop it makes your head collect dust faster.

I don't think there's any harm in applying groundnut (peanut) oil to any part of your body. I can't think of any good reason to, though. Maybe to smother head lice? Almond oil is nice for the skin.

I find a useful solution. taking head bath after appYing the above oil will give

instant cooling to your body. And it can effectively remove dust in hair and

condioning scalp.

It makes it less painful to do head stand spins when break dancing. I think that is the biggest benefit.

A teflon scullcap works much better for this, and when you're done you can fold it up and put it in your pocket.

Try doing that with peanut oil.

-e

NEVER EVER EVER USE PEANUT (GROUND NUT) PRODUCTS ON YOUNG CHILDREN!!!

It is important never to expose children under the age of 5 to any peanut based product. There are proteins in peanuts that can cause the immune system to overact and can end up with the child developing a serious allergy to peanut based products. Fatal anaphylactic reactions can happen in adult life from the most minute traces of peanut product. I have heard of a person being hospitalized after a knife that was used to spread peanut butter was later used to spread the butter on a sandwich that the person ate. In general if there are children involve avoid peanut products like the plague.

I have heard the guidance of not feeding peanut butter to children under two years of age, in order to allow their immune systems to develop. But, I personally don't know any 5 year olds who haven't been living on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a long time. I don't dispute the dangers to persons with allergies, though.

Wikipedia has a couple of interesting facts:

1) Though the allergy can last a lifetime, a 2003 study indicates that 23.3% of children will outgrow a peanut allergy.

2) Peanut allergies are almost unheard of in China and India, possibly due to the way Americans prepare peanuts, i.e., roasting them.

Other websites indicate that peanut oil is unlikely to trigger an allergic response, unless it is unprocessed, like cold pressed oil.

Personally, my favorite oil for body use is almond oil, which is the basis of many fine massage oils.

My grandson, last month at 1 yr of age, almost died after two bites of a peanut butter sandwich. An ambulance ride to the hospital and an overnight stay ensued. He recovered fully, but will have to avoid peanut products in all forms for the rest of his life. Unlike some food allergies, peanut intolerance tends to be life long.

From an evolutionary point of view, what is the survival benefit of allergic reactions?

Until about 10 yrs ago I had never heard of peanut allergies (I think the story was "woman dies when restaurant's secret ingredient for chilli turns out to be peanut butter"). Is it a new phenomena, or did it not receive any press, or did children just die and no one knew why?

Children in the west are becoming more and more allergic to more and more stuff. No one knows why, exactly. I think it's because kids today don't wallow in filth like we did. (Or maybe that was just me.)

Amusingly enough, bhankiii, you are correct. Kids don't wallow in filth enough. They need to play in the dirt, and meet with worms and ants and the critters we can't see while their immune systems are in the programming stage.

They also need to eat actual FOOD. That comes from living things. When people hear "junk food" they think of fast-food, chips and pop, but in reality the overly processed crap we get today is the true junk. Milk, for example, has no natural value left in it. All the goodness is filtered, boiled and sucked away for other things, and then it is reconstituted from - as europium has alluded - bizarre sources.

What isn't chemically reassembled is infused with unnatural nonsense to preserve it. Not for you, the eater, but for the warehouser. Your 'fresh' apple from the supermarket likely left the tree years ago. Bite into one and leave it on the table. Why doesn't it turn brown? If it resists natural rotting, it resists digestion.

Most of this is done under the heading of "food safety", in reality it's driven by economics (insatiable greed) and only serves to render things non-lethal.

For a home experiment, try making a small house out of process cheese slices. Leave them out for about an hour to stiffen into panels, make your structure, and tomorrow it will be hardened and ready for painting. (Painting is required for colour only, the stuff is pretty weather-resistant on its own.)

(American) Indians used sinew to affix points to arrows. Just because something is useful as a building material doesn't mean it's not good eatin'.

Could it be all the new substances going into our bodies? There are untold numbers of manufactured compounds and their derivatives by virtue of reactions with others, oxygen etc which we accept into our systems. Count the man made compounds in just the fridge alone. Next the bath...

Lenny Grosso

While I was looking for a specific reference to back up what I said I read that the incidence of peanut allergy in the US has increased by 100% over the past decade. Fortunately I am not allergic to peanuts but I do have many other allergies that may be tied to passive smoke as a child. Strangely nearly all my allergies are to naturally occurring products like wool, cotton, lavender but not synthetics. I have had one dose of anaphylactic shock and it's not pleasant . I carry around a couple of ampoules of Promethazine HCL at all times and end up needing to use them about once a month.

I have never seen such warnings as MASU mentions......isn't someone who has never had any early exposure more likely to develope allergies later in life?

This is the way it works with most allergies in this life - overly "Hygenic" Mothers cause such problems etc etc etc? Children brought up with house pets almost never develope such problems I understand!!!

I feel if what MASU say is correct, then there would (chould be?) be more and better health warnings, particularly for younger children, similar to what is printed on cigarette packets for Smokers!!!

I will research the web later...... and see what I find out.

What Emj4119 says is correct in most cases but with peanuts there is a particular protein that reacts with the undeveloped immune system of the child and results in the development of the allergic response. It doesn't happen all the time but if you check back on people who do have a allergy to peanuts it can nearly always be traced back to exposure to peanut products in early childhood. This article doesn't go into the actual mechanism behind the development of the allergic response but dose talk about some of the problems and the prevalence of peanut allergy.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030315/food.asp

If I can find an article on the specific mechanism behind the development of the allergy I will post it here.

While we are on the topic of allergies I read an article a couple of weeks ago about an experiment that looked into the effect of passive smoking on allergic responses. The experiment took two groups of people, a control group and a test group, and tested and recorded their responses to ragweed pollen. Using double blind techniques both groups were then exposed to a substance that for the control group was an inert gas and for the test group to the equivalent of passive cigarette smoke from a single cigarette. Over the next two weeks both groups response to ragweed pollen was retested and the results recorded. After 3 weeks the exposure to the passive smoke and inert gas was repeated.

The results showed that within 24 hours of exposure to the passive smoke the test group were on average 17 times more sensitive than the control group to the ragweed pollen. After 3 weeks the test group has recovered somewhat but on average they were still 3 times as sensitive to the ragweed pollen as the control group.

Pretty frightening eh!

Which totally does not explain why my daughter who's first five years of life coincided with my wife not smoking, is allergic to most animals and pollens and the rest of us, several of whom smoke or smoked, are allergic to nothing but oreo- and strepto-mycin.

Cruel though it sounds, the people who go into shock because the guy two aisles up and one seat over ate a peanut butter sandwich yesterday have a problem the rest of us should not have to deal with.

George Washington Carver showed how most human nutritional requirements could be met with peanuts in various forms and water.

yeah, I would call that cruel. And add insensitive and irresponsible.

My daughter is fatally allergic to peanuts in any form. She also has a number of other food allergies which manifested themselves as soon as she began eating solid foods as an infant, but her allergy to peanuts is the worst. Less than 0.1 mg of peanut product will send her into analphalactic shock. She carries a pressurized autosyringe with her at all times for this reason, as she's found trace amounts of peanut protein in the most unlikely places.

-e

The baby gut is permeable to protein and does not become an impermeable barrier to protein unto the child is 6 months to 1 year old. I assume this is because it helps them digest mothers milk.

Every child rearing class teaches mothers never ever to feed any foreign protein containing material to children. (peanuts, other nuts etc) Some mothers are unaware of this and some give their kids peanut butter and some allow traces to get into the kids food. This is easy to do as kids mouth all manner of stuff they find anywhere.

In China they feed kids on breast milk to a far higher degree and do not feed them peanut butter. I expect cases to ries in China as they picl up these bad habits.

Which is probably why we pretty much know what everything tastes like, even though we cannot remember having tasted it -- we've accumulated all that knowledge by the time we are 2 or 3. So when I see Charlie Chaplin making soup out of an old shoe, I've got a pretty good idea what it's going to taste like.

Gotta agree with "Bankiii" about modern society & new mothers being obsessed with cleanliness & sterilizing enerything their kids touch , I let my kids & grandkids play out side in the backyard lawns, dirt & "grot" as soon as they could crawl & they put all manner of things in their mouths, dirt, sand, stones, sticks, leaves, grass etc. accompanied with my usual "What's that in your mouth ? -spit it out" We also always had cats, dogs & birds which the kids all cuddled & generally mauled all over. [ although I was very carefull to make sure they never came into contact with cat feaces during the first 24 months.] I am sure this all helps to raise their levels of resistance by exposing them to a wide range of the things they will come into contact with in early life.

Most schools & kindergartens, pre-schools etc. here in Australia BAN the kids from bringing sandwiches etc. with peanut butter on them in case the kids swap sandwiches at school.

I feel that the Guest from Australia has a valid point. I have been around on this earth for 60 years and went through similar things as a kid with dogs and cats etc.. Most of the modern sprays etc were not available (thank God). My brother even ate an earthworm at about 1.5 years old!!!

None of us have any allergies at all, I wonder why....

Of ALL of the people that I have met with allergies, not a single one was brought up in anything like this way......also, having met some of the mothers as well, they all STILL show signs of being overly hygenic.

The only thing that I did with my kids was insist that they washed their hands when they went to the toilet!! Neither have any allergy problems....21 & 24 years old now...

The body of a young child needs to "learn" about bacteria and infections in a small way so that it can build antibodies, if it does not get the chance, I believe there is the root cause of a lot of these problems. Peanut butter was part of our diet, even when they were young....

Perhaps an allergic reaction to Peanuts is the result of something else done wrongly with that child - none or very little mother's milk, overly hygenic environment etc etc and not JUST an "out-of-the-blue" reaction to Peanuts themselves.... It would fit in with the fact that this is proving to be an increasing problem!!

Why is it increasing? The sale and use of hygene sprays and liquids has increased dramatically over the last 40 years.....we have hospitals with 'Superbugs' due to these overly hygenic conditions where bugs can prolificate because there is nothing natural left to kill them!!

Could some of you with firsthand experience of allergies be so kind as to comment with regard to over hygenic childhoods and the effects later? Only hard facts, not just ideas please. Do not make up stuff just to prove things one way or the other.....

I personally feel that Michael Jackson is making his life worse with his worry about bacteria!!! But maybe his childhood has protected him enough already.

Hygene sprays etc are really maybe only needed when someone in the family has developed a illness that can be passed on very easily, then its a good idea I feel to clean door knobs for that period of time......not that we actually do that each time ourselves!!!

Andy you stated

"we have hospitals with 'Superbugs' due to these overly hygenic conditions where bugs can prolificate because there is nothing natural left to kill them"

I think you will find that the evolution and spread of so called super bugs has little to do with being over hygienic but rather the miss use of antibiotics. The problem occurs when people either take antibiotics when they don't need them or fail to take the full course of treatment.

When antibiotics are used to treat a bacterial infection the vast majority of the bacteria will be kill with the first dose with the remainder being weakened. At this stage the person will feel greatly improved and thinking the infection has been defeated ceases taking the antibiotics. That leave the remaining bugs that were somewhat resistant to breed and the infection flares back up only this time the bugs are more resistant to the antibiotic. If the original treatment were continued then the antibiotics would have been able to kill it off completely due to its weakened state. The moral of the storey is if you start a course of antibiotics it is very important that you complete it.

As for being overly hygienic if you ever need to deal with a super bug like MRSA or VRSA then I suggest you learn about correct sterile procedures. The only way you can keep these bugs at bay is to be scrupulous with hygiene in an attempt to prevent either being exposed or spreading the bug. People that have MRSA and VRSA infections need to treated differently using techniques like barrier nursing to prevent the bugs from spreading to the populous in general.

You also stated

"Perhaps an allergic reaction to Peanuts is the result of something else done wrongly with that child - none or very little mother's milk, overly hygenic environment etc etc"

The way I understand it is that the Gastrointestinal GI tract of an infant needs to be permeable. It needs to be like this so the child can absorb everything it needs form mothers milk including compounds that help the immune system to develop.. Unfortunately this permeability allows certain proteins from things like peanuts and soy beans to enter the blood stream and cause the immature immune system to develop the allergic reactions. Once the child is weaned the GI tract no longer needs to be permeable so as the child matures the GI tract changes and the problem no longer exists. If you wish to know more about it try the following

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00329784;jsessionid=25C4C9510AA11EE503A1E6A82AA31165?order=3

There has even been evidence that exposure in the womb may also contribute and the resultant allergies may not only be to peanuts but also things like bananas. Just as an aside peanuts aren't actually nuts they are in fact legumes.

Personally I wouldn't take the chance with peanuts and would withhold them from children till they were at least 3 and preferably 5 years of age.

....I bow to your better knowledge and agree with you on superbugs that were not 100% killed and then hygene that was not 100% effective, but in a normal life, I am sure you agree that the human body needs to learn (produce antibodies for example) how to cope with germs/bacteria etc generally.

A complete lack of germs and bacteria cause the body to get "lazy" (as a word to use!) and when something comes along that the body is not ready for, it gets ill!!

That was the point that I failed to make before......

I was really hoping for some input from people with allergies as to how they were brought up.....

Yes Andy I do agree that we are probably too protective of children and don't let them develop an immune system with exposure. I would however suggest that you need to let the child's immune system become full functional. At a guess I would say that when a child is weaned would be a good time to allow them to be exposed to most allergens with the few exceptions we have discussed.

One of the factors driving the massive increase in board spectrum allergies since the end of WW2 could well be passive cigarette smoke. There has been little research apart for the experiment I mention in post #8. If passive exposure of as little as the smoke from one cigarette can produce on average a 1,700% increase in allergic responses just imagine what continued exposure could do. Interestingly I heard that they either have, or will in the near future, made it illegal in South Australia to smoke in a car if there are children under the age of 16 present. Personally I believe they should have made it illegal to smoke in a car period not just when there are children present.

I also believe we are overall too protective of children in every way and this is stopping them from developing a sense of danger. Telling a child not to do something is easily forgotten but learning from a minor injury is something they never forget. It's a fine balance knowing when let them make mistakes on their one and when to protect them.

If smoking were a mjor contributory factor, would we not see a decline in child incidents correlative to the decline in smoking since the 1950's and 60's?

Also, maybe people with a propensity to allergies have a inherant high reproductive drive, since only very recently would they survive to be 25 or 30 years old. They almost would have to have to have any inherited traits carried in the gene pool. Now we step in and keep them alive longer, altering the normal natural selection process. This could be a factor in the reduction in immunity, given we have been compensating for natural selection and reducing the child mortality (the strong survive to reproduce type of darwinism is not as applicable in the west as it is in china or india). Additionally, some deaths attributed to natural causes or other ambiguous factors in the past can be more accurately diagnosed now, so we do not actually have good statistical data for comparison (If you die in rural china from a peanut allergy, do they accurately identify and record the cause of death?).

Hi Masu, really good, I agree 100% with your comments. Its difficult to standby and watch your children make (non-dangerous) mistakes, but it has to be done!

Also NOT always complimenting children on everything they do well or not, because they need to experience a few (in proportion to their age)setbacks. Going out in the world with the thought that they are 100% perfect, can cause a drastic personality change when they find out that they are not!!!

Its a parents job to prepare their children for (real) life, whether its health, hygene or personality or whatever......

Dear Guest, I believe that it was only in either the late 60s or early 70s that it was made 100% clear to all that smoking causes cancer. (I know there were some isolated information, but I am talking about rock solid infos) I only seem to remember more people giving up than starting from around the early 70s personally.....

To my mind today, smoking is still allowed in far too many places. Ireland has banned smoking in Pubs & Restaurants I believe, well done Ireland, we should all follow!!! Parts of the USA have done some good things too, but try visiting a pub in Germany or Holland!!!!! You come out with what looks like a Suntan!!

Personally I do not believe that smoking has anything to do with Peanut sensitivity, the dates do not seem to correlate, peanuts have been around a long time, as has Tobacco....we should have seen it much earlier....

I personally still put "overly done Hygene" still as my personal most probable main factor with regard to many allergy problems, it is the only thing that seems to fit in with the increase in allergies in children born in the last 30 years.....

I am still hoping that people with allergies will put something in this Blog, or do allergic people not read CR4??? - Now that might be an interesting point!!!