Eh, I didn’t give my actual name, nor do you know the precise place I was tested at. Someone that obsessed, would find me anyhow I figure. And, my dorment stalker doesn’t have the know how/ability nor would they have allies with the know how/ability to even begin to find me using info like that, if they realized it was me in the first place. 
Still, thanks for the warning.
I just read those posts. :mad: PEOPLE TRY TO SNEAK PEANUTS TO YOU AS SOME FREAKY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT?! :mad: (The grandmother I can semi-forgive, she’s old, set in her ideas, means well. But it is kindness that can kill too. comfort) Please, tell me your lawyer got you justifiable homicide? :eek: :eek: :eek: I don’t think any of my relatives are that stupid, I’m pretty sure my friends aren’t either. I think just one attempt would be enough for them to give it up though. I’d muster the energy to scare the living crap outta them to the extent that they’d nightmare about my fit ever after. I don’t have a “blargh peanut itchy” reaction when I eat peanuts. I wish I did… 
I have a peanut allergy (among others) and I agree with this wholeheartedly. If I went by the “may contain traces of…” stickers, I wouldn’t be able to by 99% of the food at the grocery store. I feel as though the food industry has gone way too far in the labeling of ‘traces’ in order to cover their rear-ends.
Well, I’ll tell ya. The label might be accurate on Dove bars. I bought a large Dove Dark bar, and it said may contain traces of peanuts. And about an hour after eating 3 squares of it I had gut gurgling and was on the pot. Not as bad as the reaction that prompted me to go get tested in the first place, but a bit too coincidental to be just IBS for my comfort. 
sigh I mighta known though, they do use peanuts for their ice cream bars. I gotta get more snobby in some ways I guess (Excepting Hershey’s) and think of the chocolate companies who wouldn’t use peanuts in the first place, I guess. wry The Intense Orange Dark Lindt bar I sampled warily a couple of days later, seemed ok. I don’t know if that is consistent or not though. (As in, it’s “hit or miss” with them, sometimes there won’t be traces, other times there will be.)
Pardon, I dug up the lable again, it doesn’t just say “May contain traces” it says “May contain”! :eek: I had better start reading more carefully!
You want to watch Lindt products if you are allergic to tree nuts as they often have hazelnut paste in them.
My older son has mild peanut and soy allergies, and deadly nut allergies, particularly walnuts. He has had four anaphylaxic episodes so far, and each time was worse than the last. The last was nearly three years ago in a craft class at school when the teacher cracked a walnut to rub the meat onto a wood project, and he was standing near the nut when it was cracked.
That resulted in his face swelling like a balloon until it was so tight that he couldn’t open eyes or mouth, and his airways swelled also. It was very frightening for all concerned as though we knew and had told the school that he was allergic to walnuts, none of us knew that simply droplets in the air would do it.
I think that if you are so sensitive as to have had such a miserable reaction to a chocolate bar, you should really restrict yourself to nut free chocolate. Unfortunately the ones I can recommend are English companies (Marks and Spencers do some and Kinnerton is another one.)
Again in England I found that Tesco’s supermarket has a really good labelling policy on their own brand stuff. I can’t remember offhand as I’m in Japan, but it goes in three tiers like
“Made in a factory in which nuts are used”
“Made on a line on which nuts are not used”
“Cannot guarantee safety of ingredients.”
This way I can make the judgement myself, and would be fairly happy say to buy yoghurt with those lines on them, as I can guess that milk and strawberries are unlikely to have been next to nuts outside the factory. I might be hesitant to buy biscuits with that labelling but it is my call.
Again, not very helpful for the Americans, but hope it might help the Brits!
Yeah, I’m thinking maybe I should ask to get pricked (er, scraped with the plastic thingys) to see if I’m allergic to other nuts also. I went more than thirty years (I can remember eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at age four.) thinking peanuts were just like prunes. Now, I haven’t ever noticed myself get itchy, trouble breathing, or the trots from other nuts, but I also have allergies to molds, and Maple, and IBS. (I knew I was allergic to something in the air all this time, every year around the same times I’d get more sneezy than usual. Figured probably ragweed, given that Dad yearly curses the stuff as he plies his hanky.) So, I might have not made the connection. Probably I am not allergic to tree nuts, but I’d rather be sure, after this. :o
Well, I came in to mention Vermont Nut Free Chocolate, FAAN, and PeanutAllergy.com, but it looks like I’m way too late.
So I won’t.
Bobotheoptimist, your voice is welcome here, speak up! Tell me about your (Or your loved one’s?) experiences. What reliable brands have you found, what sources of information. Any brands you know to beware of?
Dang, did this thread die about the time the board got all freaky? I totally forgot about it.
My youngest son has peanut (and a few other) allergies, diagnosed and confirmed by an allergy & asthma doctor. We started out with only 100% nut-free chocolates (and everything else) and Vermont is the company I really came in to mention, but was beat to the punch. Subscribe to the FAAN email alerts because sometimes companies do mislabel their stuff.
But over that past 8 years it seems that most of the “may contain” or “manufactured on machinery that processes” is a corporate CYA. My kid reacts to an open jar of peanut butter in the same room but eats Hershey bars, M&M’s, Cadbury, Mars bars, etc. with no problems.
Unlike some people that want to ban PB&J sandwiches in the entire school, we’ve found that even messy 1st graders don’t generally cause much peanut butter to become airborne in the eating of a sandwich. Somehow making one is worse, but he can sit at the same table as the other kids.
Watch yourself, but it’s not the end of the world. Of course, an adult onset allergy might be worse, or he might just have a comparatively mild allergy, or maybe the people that make the news are just overreacting.
Just my $.02. YMMV, IANAAlergist, etc.
don’t know about anybody else, but i would like to see it.
Maybe the first bunny ate a lot of peanuts…