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Immediately following the birth of a baby, could a portion of the placenta not be frozen, tagged and sent to a lab for allergy testing?
The allergies developed later in life are, to my knowledge, not generally the ones causing death. It's that first bee sting, or peanut or what have you that a
child is exposed to with out knowing that there will be an allergic reaction that results in fatalities, so why not mandatory...er optional placental testing?
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you know what mandatory means, don't you? |
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Ah, yes. I will swap it for "optional". |
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Allergies are caused by the immune system over-reacting to certain stimuli.
New born babies have no immune system until a few months of age - until then, their equivalent is antibodies from the mother's breast milk in the form of colostrum. Sorry, but from what I know - it wouldn't work. |
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My sis has a peanut allergy. It develops with exposure, so it produced a noticeable reaction only by the time she was 4 years old or so. |
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