Is Allergies a complete first world problem?

Is Allergies a complete first world problem?

Did people have Allergies in medieval times?

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Now that i start thinking did people in 1900s had any allerigies just asking if anyone know?
I dont recall any things

It would be easy (and logical) to accuse everything we're exposed to nowadays, from the food and environment. People interacted with far less "substances" back then.
But I have no actual knowledge about that.

Your body identifies foreign particulate (pollen, dust, etc.) as a threat.

Your body responds by flooding associated membranes and flushing the particulate out your nose and down your throat.

Over time your digestive track identifies these elements and singals the brain to cease the autoimmune response (it decides that pollen, dander, dust, etc. aren't gonna kill you)

The American takes pills that stop this process and wonder why they have infinite allergies.

I think it has to do with people having a sedentary life.

I was fat and I had terrible allergies.
Then I lost a lot of weight and kept active.

My body had to prioritize between "bring in oxygen to foster movement" or "Freak out over a little bit of pollen"

and lo' and behold I didn't have allergies anymore

I don't think there's any recorded reports of allergies in the Medieval times, mainly because they had bigger shit to worry about than just sneezing.

Yes. Look up hygiene hypothesis. Lack of indigenous parasites with which humans co-evolved is causing most of the trouble.

In medieval times people didn't have allergies, they died.

Allergies are skyrocketing all over the third world.

I believe the main culprit is babies being hyper disinfected. When we are very young our immune system adapts to threats, and since everything is so clean and sterile now they don't get the chance to develop.

Not to mention the overabundance of food. Recent research shows that periodic starvation cleans the immune system.

That's not how the allergies work you dumbass.

Immune system =/= allergies

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If your child/ you did not live like a traditional suburb or rural 80s (and before) kid
Enjoy your asthma

Well said. How do they really work?

Both my older brother and my mother have allergies, but it seems that in soviet times the diagnosis was either very rare or didn't exist at all. They were never told that they have allergy.
It could be that modern medicine simply finally recognized this as an illness.
Disregard that, fpbp.

I would guess it's a result of long-distance human migration, which was not possible thousands of years ago.

If your ancestors lived in Northern Europe for thousands of years, and you live in Texas, chances are you're going to get fucked up by cedar fever (Juniper pollen allergies). That's me, I am miserable during early spring.

People living in places where they biologically don't really belong is one reason human migration is bad. Not to mention the social degeneration it causes.

Richard III was allergic to strawberries. I don't know any more exemple right now

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OP mentionned first world, russky bro, you shouldn't feel concerned.

>periodic starvation cleans the immune system.
whoa, really?

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well that's something.
Fasting for 3 days is a bitch though if you got shit you need to do.

Fasting for 3 days if you are just being lazy around the house is easy because you can be calm and be buddhist about it.

But trying to fast for 3 days when you gotta work, move around and get shit done would give me terrible headaches.