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 allerg
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