RECOGNIZING AND DEALING WITH NUT ALLERGIES
Introduction
When children, all of us had foods that we really like, and many that we
really believed we hated!
Often, to the adults in our young lives, these likes and dislikes make no
sense whatsoever, and more often than not, they are correct to adopt this
view. For instance, as a kid I loved tomato soup but hated tomatoes and
tomato juice, which I admit makes no sense whatsoever
As we grow older, most of us grow out of these likes and dislikes, simply
because that is all they were – little more than a passing phase of liking or
disliking something.
For a large number of people, however, the problem that they have with
food is more far reaching and serious than this.
For these people, certain foodstuffs will trigger an adverse physical reaction,
and while not all of these people are completely allergic to any particular
foodstuff, their bodily reaction might indicate otherwise.
In the West, the most common food allergy is to peanuts, while allergic
reactions to tree nuts are far less common.
Despite this, however, most people know little about peanut allergy, or any
other form of adverse reaction to nuts.
They would, therefore, have very little chance of recognizing such a
condition in friends or family members, and this can be a particularly serious
problem for the parents of young children for whom peanut allergy can be
an extremely serious and distressing problem.
This book will teach you what you need to know about such allergies,
focusing primarily on peanut allergy (as this is the condition which most
people are likely to be exposed to), other adverse reactions to peanut-based
products, and what you can do to deal with those problems.
In the last few pages of the book, we will look at a few of the important facts
about tree nut allergies.
Peanuts are not the same as nuts…
All available statistics indicate that the food allergy most widely suffered by
the greatest number of people in the West is to peanuts.
It is, therefore, important to understand what peanuts are, and more
importantly, what they are not.
A peanut is distinct from tree based nuts, in that it is a legume rather than a
true nut. It is a close relative of the soy bean, kidney bean, garden pea and
lentil.
Such plants carry nitrogen fixing bacteria on their roots, and, as a result,
they add extra nitrogen to the soil in which they grow. This enriches the soil,
and it is for this reason that such plants are extremely popular with farmers
as crops.
A tree nut, on the other hand, is generally the dried fruit of that tree, and
while tree nut allergy is every bit as severe as peanut allergy, it is far less
common
Because they are entirely different, it is possible that people can be allergic
to peanuts while they are perfectly okay with tree nuts, and vice versa.
However, for some reason that is not yet fully understood, there does seem
to be some correlation between peanut and tree nut allergies. While there
appears to be no particular reason why a peanut allergy sufferer should be
more susceptible to having the same problem with tree nuts than anyone
else, a high percentage of peanut allergy sufferers also suffer adverse
effects when they consume tree nuts.
It has also been established that children who suffer a peanut allergy are
more likely to suffer other food allergies, including tree nuts, in adulthood.
There does, therefore, appear to be some connection between the two,
probably because of a general weakening of a food allergy sufferer’s immune
system.
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