DJS0302 wrote:

> From 1st grade to my last year of college I did not hear of one person in
> school having a peanut allergy. What's funny is when someone says they're
> allergic to all nuts. How can that be? Peanuts aren't even true nuts, they're
> peas. If someone is truly allergic to peanuts shouldn't they also be allergic
> to other legumes like peas or beans?


I was wondering the same thing not too long ago on this very group. I
did some web research. I'm still no expert so I won't try to sum up
what I learned in any technical language or try to convince you, but I
did learn that, for some reason, in the world of allergies, a person
life-threateningly allegic to peanuts is more likely also to be allergic
to sesame, walnuts and pecans than to closer relatives like soy or peas.
The world of what's related to what in the nut world is more
complicated than I thought. As for why the explosion in the number of
people with these serious allergies, the doctors are wondering about
that too. It doesn't mean that the allergies (many of them, anyway)
aren't real.


--Lia