Food allergies among Japanese school kids up 1.8 points from fiscal 2013

Since the early 1990s, the number of recommended vaccines for children in Japan have increased from 5... to 16.

To say that the alarming spike in food allergies has only a coincidental link with the cocktail of vaccines parents are now pressured to have administered to their children is flat out disingenuous.

Why? Because these vaccines contain food proteins. Many independent (read: honest) scientific studies have demonstrated that food proteins in vaccines cause sensitization in humans, and their allergens in vaccines are not fully disclosed. Not only that, but safe dosage levels for injected allergens have never been established. Allergen quantities in vaccine excipients are also not regulated.

To summarize with a question: how many children did you know growing up with food allergies? Now you've got kids walking around with their permanent, multi-point vaccine scars on their arms, allergic to everything from eggs to peanuts to the latest salmon offerings from Sushiro. It's disgusting, it's insidious, but nothing will ever be done about it or even looked into because the big pharmaceutical companies wield far, far too much power.

Ohh Jay, you've uncovered a vaccine conspiracy! Very interesting theory! You should tell the people in charge.

I have read that immune resistance is learned in the first year of life and learned through skin contact primarily. There is a risk from having a house that is too clean/not letting your baby play in the dirt.

Ohh Jay, you've uncovered a vaccine conspiracy! Very interesting theory!

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth? Oh, about 20 years.

Take a look at The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s 2011 report on vaccine adverse events in children and food allergies, freely available for viewing online.

You should tell the people in charge.

But then there'd be less ¥¥¥ to be made!

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth?

That's easy: One of them is the truth. The other isn't.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s 2011 report on vaccine adverse events in children and food allergies

That's not the correct title, it is "Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality". And it qualifies and quantifies allergic reactions to vaccines by persons who are already allergic against a vaccine's protein ingredient (e.g. people with egg allergies having reactions to the egg proteins in MMR or flu vaccines). It does not, as you claim, describe that vaccines can cause food allergies.

One of them is the truth. The other isn't.

If throwing around "conspiracy theorist" labels help you feel better about your decision to vaccinate your children with their 16-shot cocktail, because you chose to forgo analyzing the scientific evidence produced from studies that aren't paid for by large pharmaceutical companies, then who I am to stop you.

At the end of the day, if it wasn't for logical, objective conspiracy analysts, you'd probably still be double-masked, socially-distanced and on your twenty-seventh intravenous booster by now, to protect you from, "you know, the thing" that you would have otherwise believed to have come from a wet market bat.

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth? Oh, about 20 years

Old one.

I prefer the one where they say conspiracy theories should be renamed ‘spoilers’.

Whatever makes life in the basement easier.

Will they sort the stolen election thing out by 2040?

feel better about your decision to vaccinate your children with their 16-shot cocktail, because you chose to forgo analyzing the scientific evidence produced from studies

You just poignantly demonstrated that, when asked for substantiation, you yourself misunderstood the content of the one study you cited in return. Stating it was freely available when it in fact isn't you probably didn't even read it. You are clearly not in a position to lecture others on the importance of studies.

if it wasn't for logical, objective conspiracy analysts, you'd probably still be double-masked, socially-distanced and on your twenty-seventh intravenous booster by now

And alas, all that remains are strawmen.

My spouse suffers from a wide range of allergies and we need to carefully check the food we buy. It's very real for the sufferers.

Or the insane amount of chemicals in our everyday environment.

Exposing children - from infancy to adulthood - to colossal amounts of PFASs, Dioxins, Benzene, EDCs, synthesized food additives, etc etc etc etc DOES have a severe impact on life quality including allergies.

The primordial soup that generated life and then sustained life for billions of years has always had naturally occuring environmental pollution, no doubt impacting living creatures - but the sheer weight of the Chemical Bomb dropped on the world in the name of advancement in the last 100 years - esp 50 years - is drowning us all.

Kids are often the 1st to suffer with telltale signs like allergies.

i love how these antivaxxers are the first to point fingers at vaccines for allergies, at the same time refuse to acknowledge the millions of kids around the world that arnt dying from , Pox, polio, hooping cough, malaria etc etc, why has there been a dramatic decrease in the childhood deaths, DAAAAHHH VACCINES. proven by science!

Both my wife and I are allergic to house dust, hay fever and other bugs but no food allergies . Our kids have developed not only the above allergies but also peanuts. Its hereditary just like other diseases.

i love how these antivaxxers are the first to point fingers at vaccines for allergies, at the same time refuse to acknowledge the millions of kids around the world that arnt dying from , Pox, polio, hooping cough, malaria etc etc, why has there been a dramatic decrease in the childhood deaths, DAAAAHHH VACCINES. 

What?

Refer to my original post. How many vaccines did you receive as a child? If you were born in a developed country pre-1991, the answer is likely four.

If you have children, how many vaccines did they receive? The answer is more than likely 16... at least.

My point is not about encouraging anyone to be pro- or anti- "vaxxer," but to be a discerning one. As you are responsible for your health and the health of your family, you owe it to yourself but more importantly, you owe it to them.

I feel like laws here don't protect people and kids from allergens in food product. Only half of products I read list allergens. Most of them don't list 'contains soy' even though they contain soy emulsifier (with different kanji from soy) and I suffer.

Because these vaccines contain food proteins.

That might be one cause, but I tend to think it is more due to the adjuvants in the vaccines. They are added to vaccines to stimulate the body's response to the antigen in the vaccine, but it likely also stimulates the body's immune response to other proteins present during or soon after vaccination (food, dust, pollen, self....).

Its hereditary just like other diseases.

Are you suggesting that recent changes in our DNA is causing food allergies to increase?

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth? Oh, about 20 years.

Lately, it seems more like 3 to 6 months...

If you have children, how many vaccines did they receive? The answer is more than likely 16... at least.

Ah, the famous "too many too soon" fallacy. The result of ever-shifting goalposts when it comes to antivaccination myths in face of their constant scientific disproval. If it's not what's in the vaccines, then certainly it must be the number of vaccines, right?

So, alright, four was okay, sixteen is not. Big number bad. Let's bring that number down, let's stop vaccinating children against (picks one at random) Japanese encephalitis. That will help, encephalitis is not that widespread, and if it doesn't kill you it it makes you stronger. Brain damaged, but stronger. And for good measure let's stop vaccinating against diphtheria, that takes three vaccinations off the list. It's only fatal in 5 to 10% of all cases, and occasional suffucation is actually a good learning experience for children.

Right?

But hey, let's entertain for a brief -- and only a brief -- second that "the vaccines" are to blame. What changed about the vaccines or the vaccine regime or the adjuvants in the vaccines in the last nine years that would explain or even give a hint at the reason for the 40% increase of allergic children?

Crickets.

So, alright, four was okay, sixteen is not. Big number bad. Let's bring that number down, let's stop vaccinating children against (picks one at random) Japanese encephalitis. That will help, encephalitis is not that widespread, and if it doesn't kill you it it makes you stronger. Brain damaged, but stronger.

Yes, stronger and not autistic...

@Wtfjapan

Both my wife and I are allergic to house dust, hay fever and other bugs but no food allergies . Our kids have developed not only the above allergies but also peanuts. Its hereditary just like other diseases.

Here is everyone's answer.

I have asthma. My grandpa died because of asthma around 40, not me.

When I was a kid some 40 hears ago, no one was asking about allergies. Children with serious allergies all died surely when young (anaphylactic shock in our case).

Now people saved thanks to medicine transmit their flawed genes to their children.

It is a general world trend. That is why you get people with more and more and all sorts of illnesses that were naturally wiped of the gene human pool.

People don't want to see the easy to understand truth.

That might be one cause, but I tend to think it is more due to the adjuvants in the vaccines. 

I suspect you might be onto something here. We took the option of spreading out our son's vaccinations instead of having 3- or 4-in-1s to hedge against the risk of overwhelming his immune system. Also, my wife takes a lot of care in making sure he has fresh, home-made foods without anything artificial where possible, and organic if practical. It's harder when we travel, but getting the wheat-free and organic meals may have helped as well. Not cheap though. So far he hasn't shown any allergies, whereas some of the other infants in his playgroup have come out with skin rashes and dust allergies, but none of the parents seem to have pinned down what the causes are.

Vaccines help you go through many illnesses that a large minority would have died or got incapacitated from in a not so distant past.

By the way, allergies can always be tamed if indeed you body interacts with the allergens on a regular basis.

I had strong hay fever when small/young. I did not stop from going out in the wild and now it is nearly non existent for me. I have a colleague with same allergy but she still needs some medicine each year...

I think with many things concerning the body, we don't really understand allergies. I have one friend who had a shrimp allergy all his life but now he can eat it with no problem. I have another friend who didn't have a shrimp allergy growing up but as an adult now has one.

I think allergies are probaly more dynamic than static. Possibly like our immue system which weakens and strengthens over time.

Or strengthens and weakens.

i love how these antivaxxers are the first to point fingers at vaccines for allergies

Why is it impossible that the solution to one problem may be the cause of another?

There does seem to be evidence to suggest that the content of certain vaccines may cause allergies. That isnt to say thay the vaccines dont work, just that we should work towards developing vaccines without these sideffects.

My kid doesn’t have any allergies and neither do I-the cat is a different matter though…

Since the early 1990s, the number of recommended vaccines for children in Japan have increased from 5... to 16.

But since studies have been done about it and prove there is no relationship between vaccines and allergies this is still completely irrelevant.

Children are exposed to many times more variety and quantity of allergens by simply having a normal life than whatever they could get from vaccinations, it is irresponsible to pretend otherwise.

What's the difference between conspiracy theory and the truth? Oh, about 20 years.

Since most conspiracy theories are mutually exclusive that is still completely false. The Earth is still not falt, nor hollow, no matter how much time has passed since believers in both proposed a world wide conspiracy to hide that "truth".

Take a look at The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s 2011 report on vaccine adverse events in children and food allergies, freely available for viewing online.

The same institute that explicitly recommended the full schedule of vaccination for children in 2013? what makes you think you know better the report than the authors that contradict what you claim?

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13563/the-childhood-immunization-schedule-and-safety-stakeholder-concerns-scientific-evidence

If throwing around "conspiracy theorist" labels help you feel better about your decision to vaccinate your children with their 16-shot cocktail, because you chose to forgo analyzing the scientific evidence produced from studies that aren't paid for by large pharmaceutical companies, then who I am to stop you.

Conspiracy theorist are simply those that when the evidence contradict what they want to believe and discredit their flawed or misrepresented sources simply use the excuse that this happens because of a conspiracy (of which they have absolutely no proof). Once your argument ends up that all medical associations and institutions of the world are in a conspiracy to damage the health you are simply recognizing you have no argument.

That might be one cause, but I tend to think it is more due to the adjuvants in the vaccines. They are added to vaccines to stimulate the body's response to the antigen in the vaccine, but it likely also stimulates the body's immune response to other proteins present during or soon after vaccination (food, dust, pollen, self....).

And yet no vaccine (nor vaccine schedule) have ever been proved to increase the risk of allergies to anything not included in the vaccine. Which means you have an explanation for something that is not happening.

Are you suggesting that recent changes in our DNA is causing food allergies to increase?

That is a terribly irrational way of misrepresenting the quoted comment. As mentioned in other comments, this is the same as many other conditions like asthma. The much simpler explanation is that people that used to die from those diseases are now able to reach adulthood without problems and transmit the condition. There is no "recent changes" in the human DNA in general.

Why is it impossible that the solution to one problem may be the cause of another?

Mostly because this is not something that antivaxxers suddenly thought of about studying but instead something that pediatricians and epidemiologists have already discarded as not happening based on data from millions of children.

There does seem to be evidence to suggest that the content of certain vaccines may cause allergies

Is there? a reference would be useful, because the professional opinion of the association of specialists that deal with vaccines as part of their job is that vaccines in general do not cause allergies (except of course in very rare case to the components of the vaccine). How is is that they are wrong about their field of expertise?

Yes, stronger and not autistic...

At this point the claim that vaccines cause autism has been debunked so thoroughly, you might as well go all in and regurgitate really old debunked claims. "Vaccines turn people into cows" maybe?

Is there? a reference would be useful

You can always use google to find more information. This one was on the first page and lists a bunch of studies on this topic.

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/evidence-that-food-proteins-in-vaccines-cause-the-development-of-foodallergies-and-its-implications-for-vaccine-policy-2329-6631-1000137.pdf

You also have to take in to account that its in the best interests of the vaccine specialists and manufacturers to say that there is nothing wrong with vaccines. The pharmaceutical industry is as driven by profits as any other.

That might be one cause, but I tend to think it is more due to the adjuvants in the vaccines. They are added to vaccines to stimulate the body's response to the antigen in the vaccine, but it likely also stimulates the body's immune response to other proteins present during or soon after vaccination (food, dust, pollen, self....).

And yet no vaccine (nor vaccine schedule) have ever been proved to increase the risk of allergies to anything not included in the vaccine.

Indeed, pharma studies have not proven that their vaccines cause allergies. And?

It has become painfully clear in the past 3 years that those who should be investigating the safety and long term effects of new medical products do not want to find problems in said products.

You can always use google to find more information

But if the only references I can find are easily debunked by real science then you would be the one being refuted by them, that is why the people making the claims are the ones that should provide the evidence of those claims.

For example the source you are using makes exactly zero effort to prove its point. If there is not a higher incidence of food allergies on vaccinated people compared with unvaccinated ones then every argument the author is trying to make falls flat. How would vaccines affect the same people that are not receiving them? The same IOM that the author is trying to appeal as an authority is the one that fully recommends vaccination of children, which obviously contradicts the whole point he is making. Since the manuscript is dated a years after this recommendation was made public it is highly unethical that the author do not mention this.

This is explained by the credentials of the author, that have repeatedly claimed multiple conspiracies and falsehoods about vaccines, never bothering to offer actual evidence about anything he writes about.

https://vinuarumugham.substack.com/p/four-major-crimes-enabled-the-covid

No evidence of his claims and a very doubful appeal to authority would mean your source is deeply problematic. This works to the opposite of what you wanted to use it, because it makes it clear that you had to lower your standards of evidence a lot in order to include it.

You also have to take in to account that its in the best interests of the vaccine specialists and manufacturers to say that there is nothing wrong with vaccines

Irrelevant, when the professionals of medicine and safety of the world support those claims then it does not matter. Obviously pretending everybody that support the efficacy and safety of vaccines must be in some conspiracy to hide the "truth" about them makes absolutely no sense. This is not a credible argument.

Indeed, pharma studies have not proven that their vaccines cause allergies. And?

Neither have the studies coming from uninvolved medical professionals that have the health of their patients as their first priority.

Again, pretending everybody that matters in the field (and every single institution of human health in the whole world) is hiding something just because you want to believe in that something is not an argument. Neither is pretending the evidence comes exclusively from the companies making the vaccines.

Since the early 1990s, the number of recommended vaccines for children in Japan have increased from 5... to 16.

And since 1990, the death rate in Japan among under-5 year olds has dropped from 6 per 1000 births to 2 per 1000 births.

And both statements may be equally irrelevant.

Intensive exposure to household chemical and no free playing outside, what could go wrong?

People get mad when it's suggested that this might be caused by newer vaccines, as being an "anti-vaxxer" is now associated with racist Republican Trump supporters (as opposed to of the liberal crunchy granola crowd who made up the anti-vaxxer movement pre-Covid, who nobody really batted an eye at).

I'm not sure if it's vaccines or GMO foods or some kind of insecticide or something else, but something is going on. Kids here in the US also have all sorts of allergies now that weren't an issue in previous generations. We all took peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school as kids and it wasn't an issue, whereas now peanuts are banned in schools because there are lots of kids who could go into shock just touching a table that somebody got some peanut butter on.

I think we need to be open-minded when we try to figure this one out. Likely in 10-20 years we'll know what the culprits are. Getting mad because plausible theories clash with one's political views and trying to cancel people for considering those theories isn't going to help.

something is going on

Absolutely. That something being allergies detected better and earlier and taken seriously.

As an allergic myself (though not to anything a vaccine would ever have as a protein ingredient, cough) I can first-hand tell you that still at the tail end of last century, even a confirmed allergy was brushed off as a "little ailment" by doctors, teachers, and occasionally even parents. If you'll allow the anecdote, I had a P.E. teacher who told me to "walk off" an allergic conjunctivitis. I eventually walked it off ... by walking straight into an emergency room.

That's the level of ignorance we have overcome nowadays, and fortunately so. One of my nephews was diagnosed with a severe egg allergy a few hours after he was born. Before he even had the chance to get any allergies from vaccines, if you will.

People get mad when it's suggested that this might be caused by newer vaccines

No, people get mad when this is suggested without having any scientific basis and even by contradicting available scientific evidence of the contrary.

I think we need to be open-minded when we try to figure this one out. 

The problem is when people advocate for the mind to be open to the degree the brains can fall out. Entertaining a possibility that has not been studied is one thing, insisting this must be the cause when it was already studied and found unrelated is a completely different one.

There are many much simpler and evidence-supported explanations being offered. Ignoring them do not make sense.

People get mad when it's suggested that this might be caused by newer vaccines, as being an "anti-vaxxer" is now associated with racist Republican Trump supporters (as opposed to of the liberal crunchy granola crowd who made up the anti-vaxxer movement pre-Covid, who nobody really batted an eye at).

So true. I have posted the studies here showing the connection between vaccines and allergies.

It is very easy to claim the experts are wrong by saying vaccines are not related to allergies, the difficult part is to actually show evidence to prove it.

Sometimes its as if people dont understand how research happens. Its all funded by someone. You have to ask yourself why is this party funding this research and what results do they want to see. Im not saying all research is bs, but a fair share of it is.

Sometimes its as if people dont understand how research happens. Its all funded by someone. You have to ask yourself why is this party funding this research and what results do they want to see. Im not saying all research is bs, but a fair share of it is.

Good point.

And some studies by experts show the connection between vaccines and allergies.

Sometimes its as if people dont understand how research happens. Its all funded by someone.

Every study? from many countries around the world? not really a believable conspiracy.

And some studies by experts show the connection between vaccines and allergies.

At this point this would be zero studies.

The study was conducted between October and December last year, with some 25,000 schools with a total of 8.3 million students giving valid responses.

Not good. And it can be inferred many of these students were vaccinated.

Studies out there that are easily accessible show the link.

@gcFd1

Studies out there that are easily accessible show the link.

What studies are you talking about? everything I find says precisely the opposite.

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccines-and-other-conditions/vaccines-asthma-allergies

It is extremely irresponsible and misleading to say vaccines produce allergies,

It is extremely irresponsible and misleading to say vaccines produce allergies,

Unfortunately this is a very common problem, media outlets let people repeat debunked and misleading information that can put in risk the health of other people in the comments sections, something that greatly decreases the value of the actual scientific articles they publishe like this one.

What is extremely irresponsible and misleading is to not adequately test the safety of vaccines, especially long term, and then pretend they are perfectly safe.

I repeat, being confronted on a regular basis to an allergen makes your body to adapt.

In France, I hardly hear people are allefgic to peanut butter. Many peanut appetizers are proposed in bars, restaurants...

American food is called junk food for a reason. I know well because I lived in the USA for some time, even if it was some time ago.

What is extremely irresponsible and misleading is to not adequately test the safety of vaccines, especially long term, and then pretend they are perfectly safe.

Nobody is doing that, vaccines have been tested adequately and the data from billions of vaccinations completely support what was found, which is that vaccines are safe and effective.

Making up imaginary problems and then criticizing the whole medical community of the world for not addressing those imaginary problems is not valid.

There is no reported link between vaccination and allergies, and this is something that has already been investigated scientifically.

What is extremely irresponsible and misleading is to not adequately test the safety of vaccines, especially long term, and then pretend they are perfectly safe.

Exactly, and we see the experts agreeing with this.

We also see studies that show vaccines can cause allergies in children.