Re:Nut allergies

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Information below was copied from the following site: It pretty much answered

my question.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aair/nuts.htm#SEC2

If my child is allergic to one kind of nut, are other kinds of nut dangerous

too? Are people with peanut allergy likely to be allergic to tree nuts (and vice

versa)?

Quite often they are not, but unfortunately many children and adults who are

allergic to one kind of nut also become allergic to other kinds. This includes

not only peanuts, almonds, brazil nuts, cashew nuts, hazel nuts, pistacio nuts,

walnuts and pecan nuts, but also in rather fewer people coconut, sesame seed,

poppy seed, sunflower seed, and pine kernels.

The next 2 paragraphs were added 23rd Jan 2001 in response to numerous emails..

It is surprising that allergy to peanuts does go together with allergy to tree

nuts, because peanuts are closely related to peas and beans and not closely at

all to tree nuts. Nevertheless allergies seem to ignore the botanists and their

classifications in this. We don't know why. If you are allergic to peanuts

you're far from certain to be allergic to the other nuts, but the risk of that

is far higher than in people who don't have peanut allergy. The same is true the

other way round. If you are allergic to tree nuts, you are more likely to become

allergic to peanuts. Skin and blood tests often show allergy to more kinds of

nuts than people suspect before the test.

Perhaps just as surprisingly, some things which are called nuts or look like

nuts don't particularly cause trouble in people with nut allergy. Edible

chestnuts (Spanish chestnuts, marrons) are one example. Although they are called

nuts and although they do cause allergic reactions in some people (especially

people with latex allergy), they seem to leave people with other nut allergies

in peace. Nutmeg is another very good example I'm often asked about. I have

never known it cause trouble in people with nut allergy, and if it does cause

the anaphylactic kind of allergy at all, it seems at the moment as if this must

be very rare.

Sesame seed is particularly difficult to avoid with certainty as the seeds are

so small and may fall off bakery products. It is the main ingredient of tahini

(tehina, tchina), which is in turn an ingredient of other foods, for example

houmous (various other spellings are used, e.g. hummus). We would like e-mail

with any useful information from people who have problems with sesame seeds,

poppy seed, sunflower seed, and pine kernels. It is strange that all these kinds

of nuts and seeds cause problems in the same people, because peanuts, almonds

and coconuts, for example, come from plants which are not closely related. The

fact is that one person may be allergic to any or all of them.

Best to avoid all nuts, and to be suspicious of sesame seeds, poppy seed,

sunflower seed, and pine kernels.

Re: Baby soap

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> > One more thing you might think about , and that is maybe substituting

> > the almond oil with something else. My reason for suggesting this is

> almond

> > oil and the nut allergy problem.

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> > What about using shea butter in place of the almond.

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> > Gwen

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