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Originally Posted by Toxaris
They do, especially for nuts. They often just put it on the package to avoid liability. My daughter gets into an anaphylactic shock from exposure to nuts, so we are quite cautious.
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Allergies are enormous problems.
My SO has an assortment, including seafood, fresh (but
not dried) peppers, and meats processed with nitrites. Consuming them produces blinding migraines. (And it's especially annoying to her because the allergies were hormone related, and didn't manifest till she hit puberty. She grew up on the south shore of Long Island and had seafood regularly as a kid. She sometimes clutches my hand and whimpers when we pass places offering soft shell crabs, because she loved them.) The most recent allergy to manifest is wheat - eat it and her kidneys shut down. The problem isn't gluten - she can eat that all day - it's specifically wheat. We look at gluten-free dishes simply because they won't have wheat as a side-effect.
She got a nasty surprise a while back. She takes Glucosamine in pill form to help maintain arthritic joints. The Glocosamine itself wasn't a problem, but the manufacturer making it had changed the materials used to make the pill casing to include shellfish products. She had to find a brand that used only vegetable products in the pill cases.
I'm involved in helping to plan and run hobbyist conventions. At an upcoming one, we have a couple of staff members who can't be in the same
room with peanuts. My SO runs the Staff Den that feeds folks working on the event, and already has plans, including signage about it being a peanut free zone, and telling people "If you want peanut butter, we can provided sealed packages of it, things to spread it on, and things to spread it with, but you will have to go elsewhere to do it.
A friend of our from hobbyist circles described a life-threatening allergy to onions. This came as an enormous surprise to his mother, who prepared dishes with onions for him when he was a kid. It turns out his allergy is to a specific enzyme that was broken down by the way his mother cooked them. He found out the hard way the first time he had onions not prepared that way that it was a problem.
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Dennis