Nut allergies

el_dazza

el_dazza

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Hi guys,

My mum wanders into my room this morning saying her doctor thinks she might have a nut allergy.

She was eating brazil nuts on saturday night and said she felt like the back of her throat was being stung by a bee, and the same thing happened again yesterday, and again whilst eating brazil nuts.
Of course, it was an almost instant reaction but she's always been fine eating nuts, and any other nuts she'd eaten over the past few days other than brazils she's been fine with.

I find it quite weird that she's been fine eating them her whole life, yet suddenly develops a reaction to them now? Has anyone else suffered from this?
Thanks :)
 
Is it just Brazil nuts?

I'd hate to have nut allergies or be lactose intolerant. So much of your diet has to change, and you have to be so careful.
 
Yep, I had the same with my nickel allergy. It's quite common that someone suddenly becomes sensitive to something following repeat exposure.
 
Gilly said:
Is it just Brazil nuts?
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Yeah, that's the bit i'm confused about as well! She was eating a pack of mixed nuts at work, none of the others affected her at all, weird :confused:
 
I was thinking about this today, how would you find out if your kid has a peanut allergy? The kind that brings on anaphylactic shock for instance. Is there a test? Surely you can't just give you kid a peanut and hope for the best?
 
One of my dads uncles was a master baker and had to give it up after 30 odd years as he became allergic to flour overnight.
 
Tru said:
I was thinking about this today, how would you find out if your kid has a peanut allergy? The kind that brings on anaphylactic shock for instance. Is there a test? Surely you can't just give you kid a peanut and hope for the best?
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If someone is that sensitive, usually you would see some symptoms even before they ate them, just being in the same room/vicinity would result in :

Puffed up eyes, eyes itching (like mad), maybe some breathing difficulties.
 
Sometimes you just get allergies. I developed angioedema which basically means that If i exercise, my eyes swell up really really badly. Never had a problem then one day it happens and it's happened ever since.
 
Bernard said:
If someone is that sensitive, usually you would see some symptoms even before they ate them, just being in the same room/vicinity would result in :

Puffed up eyes, eyes itching (like mad), maybe some breathing difficulties.
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I see, cheers.
 
Tru said:
I was thinking about this today, how would you find out if your kid has a peanut allergy? The kind that brings on anaphylactic shock for instance. Is there a test? Surely you can't just give you kid a peanut and hope for the best?
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If it's anything like the way people react to bee stings, it gets worse with repeated exposure, so I doubt they'd die on first contact. They'd just have a bad reaction, which would worsen each time they were exposed to it.
 
Apparently you are not born with nut alergies, it is something you develop.

It's an increasing problem in western society atm (along with other alergies, diabities, athsma etc)

I have a feeling its a direct result of our wealth. Athsma is heavily triggered by dust mites for example, which find living in our homes (particulary beds) far easier due to better insulation, leading to warmer tempratures and higher humidity. If we lived in colder draftier homes, with wooden floors then dust mites would not be able to live and breed as well as they are doing.

I wonder if nuts might be due to a pestiside or contaminant used in cultivating them or if selective breeding had developed a more toxic nut (that also hapens to grow bigger and faster)
 
el_dazza said:
Hi guys,

My mum wanders into my room this morning saying her doctor thinks she might have a nut allergy.

She was eating brazil nuts on saturday night and said she felt like the back of her throat was being stung by a bee, and the same thing happened again yesterday, and again whilst eating brazil nuts.
Of course, it was an almost instant reaction but she's always been fine eating nuts, and any other nuts she'd eaten over the past few days other than brazils she's been fine with.

I find it quite weird that she's been fine eating them her whole life, yet suddenly develops a reaction to them now? Has anyone else suffered from this?
Thanks :)
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The EXACT same thing happened to me a while ago when I tried a peanut in a pub. I tried one again a couple of weeks later and felt the same, so i've obviously just decided to never eat them. I told my ma and she thought I was just being stupid and that i've ate nuts before in her food (I generally don't eat nuts though).
 
With me, I used to be allergic to all nuts. Now it's just peanuts(which aren't really nuts).
They still taste horrific to me (although I like toblerones).


Peanuts:
If I've bit my lips, as soon as it touches(eg: I accidentally tried some of my mates peanut + banana cakes) the bit you bit on your lip swells up massively, this happens instantly, so violent spitting ensues :p
Then, because it's touched your mouth, it gets into saliva and then your throat tingles, eventually your mouth dries up, and swallowing feels like you have sand there for me.. (it's not really like that, I can't really explain the feeling..it's horrible).

Then I'm sick until my stomach's empty, and if I drink water, I'm sick again. :/

The throat stuff goes on >2hrs, sick happens after 30mins and goes on for about 20.


At least my heart doesn't stop :) My mates does if he touches them and has to have adrenaline injected to keep him alive :/

I used to get rashes also, when I first got it, but I've so rarely had anything (the cake touch was pretty much the only time I can remember) with peanuts in since that, I haven't had a chance to actually swallow one :)


But your mum's bee sting analogy sounds pretty good :)

Sorry for her.

There's plenty to eat without nuts :p
 
Wardie said:
The EXACT same thing happened to me a while ago when I tried a peanut in a pub. I tried one again a couple of weeks later and felt the same, so i've obviously just decided to never eat them. I told my ma and she thought I was just being stupid and that i've ate nuts before in her food (I generally don't eat nuts though).
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You don't want it to get worse, and I think it does the more you have.

Probably to convince you they're not a good idea :P
 
georges said:
You don't want it to get worse, and I think it does the more you have.

Probably to convince you they're not a good idea :P
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I don't eat nuts anyways, it's just she's pretty certain nuts will have been in my food in the past 17 years and i've never noticed a thing. I think she just thought I was over-reacting or something, but I did try eating peanuts for the second time to check it out, was a bad idea.

It wasn't painful or anything, just a REALLY uncomfortable feeling in my throat like it was swelling or something (I could breathe fine).

For obvious reasons though i'll just avoid nuts, can't be bothered going to the docs for it.
 
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