What is the most dangerous time of life for nut allergy?
Small children are amazingly good about avoiding nuts if they are allergic to them. Parents make few mistakes. The main danger to children seems to come from mistakes made by adults other than their parents. That said, some foods contain nuts in a way which is not obvious, and anyone will make a mistake occasionally. Before the teenage years children also seem to have a much smaller risk of dying than teenagers and adults even if they do have anaphylaxis. For example this is true of young children who have anaphylaxis from bee or wasp stings, when they are stung with the same amount of venom as an older person. The biggest risk period seems to be in the teens and young adulthood, perhaps because young people of this age become more independent, are no longer protected by parents so much of the time, and may not be so strict about keeping their treatment with them all the time. Beyond the teens and twenties the impression is that the risk of accidentally eating nuts becomes smaller agai
