What causes allergic reactions to peanut butter?
Nut and Peanut Allergy First grade has been a difficult parenting year for Anne. Her 6-year-old son, Justin, began eating lunch in the cafeteria with hundreds of other students armed with their peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter crackers, and all those hidden peanuts in their processed foods. For Justin, who has an extremely severe allergy to peanuts, it means sitting at a separate table with other children who have food allergies. But Justin isn’t alone: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimates that 6% of children younger than 3 years old have some kind of allergy to food, putting them at risk of an allergic reaction at home, or even more dangerously, away from home. It seems ironic that one of the most popular, most readily available proteins causes one of the most pervasive and severe allergies among Americans. What Are Nut and Peanut Allergies? The most common allergy-causing foods are peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, wheat, and soy, according to the Foo
