Nut Allergy

[Spreeny]

3 weeks ago I was rushed by ambulance to hospital with an allergy to peanuts! .. In 2weeks time I will be 65 & have been eating peanuts for as long as I can remember.....it has scared me to death - am I allergic to all nuts now? Tia

[237SJ]

My friend`s daughter is allergic to peanuts but she can eat nuts because peanuts aren`t nuts - they`re legumes.

[Sqad]

Not an easy answer and confused medical research to indicate a direct answer.
My advice..........avoid ALL nuts.

[gness]

Spreeny......I loved peanuts.....bought a huge pack every week.....

One New Year's Eve at a party about twenty years ago I ate some....and had a reaction....took ages to work out what it was because my reactions were strange.....not a full anaphylactic reaction....but throat swelling and muscle pain.

When I tried eliminating peanuts I was fine but then made the mistake of trying some.....that was when I had the dangerous reaction.....I now carry two epi pens....it's amazing how someone can know yet cook you something in groundnut oil.....a mistake she swears ...but she's in my will so who knows.....☺

For some time I had bad reactions to anything that was a legume....no chocolate... beans...peas and soya which is in just about everything....and gums used for thickening....guar and xanthum gum for example.
Corn is in the peanut family and I could tell if a chicken I ate had been corn fed.

I now react less to other things in the peanut family.....just a tingling of the lips and reddening and swelling of hands and feet....so I will eat chocolate and the like sometimes.....but peanuts are off my list.

You need to look at what is in the same family as peanut and notice if you react slightly....but you should..if you're like me .....be able to eat other nuts....because a peanut isn't a nut.....I'm tucking into cashews just now.

If you stop eating peanuts for a good while and then try some the reaction could be really bad.....never be far from an epi pen....

Just don't eat peanuts!

[AlwaysConfused]

If in doubt, avoid!

[flump1]

I just found out I am allergic to nuts........crying shame I live with them. Sorry I digress , you may well be, don't take any chances.

[gness]

That doesn't work though, AC...because it's the foods in the peanut family that have to be looked at...not nuts which are not in the same family....so it's too easy to bark up the wrong tree...x

[Old_Geezer]

I guess there is one way to find out, although whether you think eating nuts are worth the risk ,,,

Can't you get tests where they shove stuff on/in your arm to see if you react ?