In 1995, a taste of peanut butter sent Heather Fraser’s one-year-old son into anaphylactic shock. He was part of the “first wave” of kids in what has become an epidemic—today 1 in every 13 kids has a life-threatening food allergy. With a background in historical research, Heather set out to investigate what’s behind this alarming trend, reading everything she could find: medical literature, textbooks, the history of anaphylaxis and allergy. She eventually found her answer – that “the history of vaccination had been bowdlerized,” and in 2008 wrote a groundbreaking book, “The Peanut Allergy Epidemic.”
Now in its second release, as a new batch of kindergarteners head off to school with Epi Pens in hand, Heather’s book is a must-read for all parents. Read on for her insights into what she thinks is really behind the allergy epidemic and what we, as parents, can do about it.
What’s with all the food allergies in kids these days?
The answer is simple and the science is straight-forward, but it’s also highly controversial: vaccination is responsible for the epidemic levels of life threatening allergies to peanut and other foods in children. 100-plus years of medical literature, every vaccine package insert and a Nobel Prize given in 1913 all explain how vaccination causes life threatening anaphylaxis and allergy/atopy to what is in the shot…