<p>Could be he won’t. Peanuts are actually a legume rather than a nut, aren’t they?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine having a severe food allergy. Even worse would be having a child with one. You can’t follow them around 24/7, so I can imagine how scary it can be. Particularly when you are dealing with knuckleheads who not only don’t believe you, but will even go out of their way to challenge you. I read an article where a woman’s son went into anaphylaxis at a birthday party. Turns out the host mother didn’t believe the other mother’s claims that her son was allergic to peanuts. After the other mother had left the party, the hostess actually gave the boy a cookie with peanuts in it in order to “prove” that the allergy claims were bogus. After seeing her guest off in an ambulance, the hostess was finally contrite.</p>
<p>@poetsheart - tree nuts are very different from peanuts. Peanuts are legumes, like peas and clover (silly, but the only other ones I can think of). It’s lucky that he is not allergic to peanuts also, that gives you both one less thing to worry about!</p>
<p>For anyone else wondering if a young (pre-verbal) child may be allergic to something, another sign of allergic discomfort is pulling at one’s ear. Like the scene in that Will Smith movie where he eats “coquille st. Jacques” and has an allergic reaction. It was a pretty realistic scene of an allergic reaction, even though it was a “slow” allergic reaction compared to ones that would bring immediate and potentially deadly swelling. </p>
<p>@Nrdsb4 - maybe the child who was taken away in an ambulance can bring on an imaginary lawsuit. Or maybe an imaginary charge of reckless endangerment, assault, and attempted murder!</p>
<p>I have mild allergies to peaches, plums, pineapples, apples, mangoes, papayas and similar fruits. I can eat a small serving with minor problems or can eat these if cooked. The allergic reaction is a reaction in my lips - they get puffy and irritated. Have had this since childhood. Daughter has a much more extreme reaction; there’s a red ring around her lips but it isn’t caused by fruit. We’re not exactly sure what causes it and she hasn’t had it for about five years but she’s more cautious about what she eats. My wife does a lot of home cooking to avoid the reaction for my daughter.</p>
<p>Yes, there are food allergies with physical evidence.</p>
<p>barrons, one time I went out with my family to a well-known seafood restaurant in Palm Beach, FL. I had a few bites of seafood and, I’m not kidding you, I turned white as a ghost and ran out of the restaurant, only to start throwing up in the potted plants outside the restaurant. That’s how quickly the reaction starts (for me). Luckily it is just severe nausea / cramps, nothing involving swelling or breathing. It is an “easy” allergy to live with – just don’t eat shellfish, problem solved – and I don’t have any sensitivities from being around others who are eating it and can easily accompany others to seafood restaurants – but I find it odd that you think it’s about “being special.” My family still jokes about this incident and it’s been probably 20 years. What special props does it get me in life?</p>
<p>Just a little public service announcement: My allergist correctly diagnosed my severe hives as a symptom of an underactive thyroid. So you might want to have blood work done if you or a loved one have “unexplained” hives.</p>
<p>DD has the same allergy and she too can eat these foods if cooked. I was told that it is some type of protein that is broken down when heated. When she was very young she liked apples but told me one day that she didn’t like how her scalp got “scratchy” when she ate them. </p>
<p>What is funny is that DH and I do not have any food allergies. Our closest friend did. All of the same ones as our daughter. Sometimes when we would all go out to eat they would confer on what dessert to order or whether a certain fruit was okay - pear, yes; apple, NO. His wife would joke that if DD didn’t look exactly like her dad she would have been asking me some questions. </p>
<p>DD also had problems with some soy products. We couldn’t figure out why some were okay and others problematic. Turns out that barley malt was a trigger. </p>
<p>It is so hard to cope with food allergies in your children in a way that is sensible, but not neurotic.</p>
<p>We spent several years looking for the trigger for our daughter’s problem but it’s possible that she has outgrown it or we’re now careful enough that she doesn’t run into whatever caused it. There was far less awareness of allergies when I grew up and it can result in self-modifying behavior for kids. The fruits taste good so you eat a lot of them but you pay for it later. At some point, your brain figures out that it isn’t worth it and you avoid the foods (at least in quantity) causing the allergies.</p>
<p>I do not recall any problems with celery though it’s not something that I eat in volume. I only see it in salads in small quantities.</p>
<p>We also have problems with alcoholic beverages, especially wine. There’s apparently some Asian gene that explains that. Many asians have problems with dairy foods too and I understand that there’s a genetic explanation for that.</p>
<p>Re/ cheese intolerance. I am lactose intolerant, and when I figured it out and stopped eating milk I dropped 15 lb. like a stone. Ppl came up to me and asked what my diet was - I said it’s the potato chips and nuts diet and they walked away disgusted. Except for one woman who listened and then a few weeks later came up to me and said, “yeah - I melted.” For me I no longer have constant ache in right front torso. Have figured out how to find yummo calories, unfortunately (nuts, beans, sheep’s milk cheeses). Use alot of lactaid, and other brands don’t work for me (the only Trader Joe’s product that doesn’t beat out other brands for me). I can turn the pain on and off by just adding cream or not to my coffee. Oh and newsflash - cremora is derived from milk products. Jeebus! And soy yogurt has milk in it. Xmas! And bread often has whey, which is a wayyyyyyy gas producing milk product. </p>
<p>ALSO, I have been fascinated to find that the best non dairy case of substitute products I have ever found was in South Florida. I think the wisdom holders have learned that milk is just for babies. And/or, there are certain genetic strains of ppl (northern europeans) who have the gene for digesting cow’s milk and the rest of the population does not. We digest sheep and goat milk, but not cow milk. </p>