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Sudden peanut allergy.?

I suddenly developed an allergy to peanuts and peanut products, and it's grown steadily worse. Now even trace amounts in plain M&M's, or peanut oil in Chinese cooking sets it off. It's very strange because until as little as two years ago I wasn't allergic at all! Are sudden allergy onsets like this normal, or a harbinger of something else?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Honestly, allergies can lie dormant until a person is well into adulthood and then with one food trigger too many the histimines get overworked and the allergies symptoms just start. You need to be extremely careful with peanut allergies, as this is one of the most serious ones with the ability to cause anaphylactic shock. You need to see an allergist to ensure that you are not allergic to anything else, and also to get an epi-pen (if you haven't already done so). This has saved my life on more than one occasion. Here are two links to commonly used allergy sites:

    http://www.foodallergyinitiative.com/

    http://www.foodallergy.com/

    Hope this helps!

    Source(s): Personal experience with asthma, allergies and atopic dermatitis.
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    5 years ago

    hypersensitive reactions can pop abruptly, from issues that for the period of no way stricken you earlier. in case you think of you have a peanut hypersensitivity, do no longer play around with it. according to probability there is something else that comes alongside with the peanut butter, something else you ate that day or something interior the product itself which reasons the tipping element. i could do exactly away with something that does that to you. If it gets extremely inconvenient, you are able to call an allergist and see in the event that they do exams for which ingredients to do away with.

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