[eskibars]

Yeah, we hadn't heard of this when our son was born, but the allergist mentioned it. When our daughter was born, we gave her something like this at his recommendation. The ones we got were some puffs that have a whole pile of allergens in tiny doses. Causation vs correlation and all that, and a small sample size, but our daughter doesn't have any issues with any allergies.

[compumetrika]

The economist Emily Oster wrote an excellent series of books about pregnancy anf early kid years, where she dives into details about various studies, whether they are causal, etc. It's one of the best practiacl explainations of reading research I've encountered targeted at non-academics, really well done. She has a chapter on peanut exposure allergies and i think inrecall that these early-exposure results are in fact from causal research vs just correlational research (basically there are at least two types of papers out thwre -- correlational and causal. As you might guess causal is harder to get for many reasons). Great books; she may also have published some chapters on her substack (substack came after the book I think).

I realize as I write this that you are probably saying that for your own experience you can't disentangle correlational from causation, to which I would say -- correct!

[MobileVet]

Emily Oster is a national treasure that is still flying under the radar for most people.

As above, she presents excellent science in an approachable manner for non-science minded folks. She also has enough of the technical details for this with the knowledge to be confident she has done a strong analysis.

If you are a parent and haven’t checked her stuff out, please do. (Zero affiliation or connection)