Question about Peanut Allergies...?

Question

A friend of mine was telling me that her cousin has anaphylactic allergy to peanuts....But then she told me that he eats peanut butter... I told her it wasn't possible to be deathly allergic to peanuts, but your able to eat peanut butter...But she swears that it's true...Something about the raw peanuts, versus processed ones?

Is this a load of bull? I find it so hard to believe.

I'm deathly allergic to Eggs and Milk, and if i even have a trace i could choke to death...How is this possible that he can eat peanut butter?

Answer 1

Invite this person over for lunch sometime, have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If the person eats it and no reaction you know they are right, if they won't touch it or their throat starts shutting, you will know also. Good luck.

Answer 2

It could be something besides the peanut itself that he is allergic to or he does not eat enought peanut butter to actually cause a serious reaction. I am allergic to lots of foods containing latex. The foods produce a byproduct within themself that causes the reaction. Corn is one of the foods, for example, and almost everything is made with corn starch, foods, or syrup. I have to read the ingredients and if the corn part is near the end I can eat it and have no or little reaction. If I were to eat corn by itself or in the first process of the ingredients in food, I would have a severe attack. Allergies are very tricky.

Answer 3

Not possible. I have a co-worker with a daughter who has a peanut allergy. She cannot touch peanuts, peanut butter or anything processed in a plant that uses peanuts. even traces of peanut oil can set her off. Your friend is either mistaken or full of it.

Answer 4

I think they are crazy!  There is no way you can be allergic to peanuts and eat peanut butter.  My son is a level 2 allergy to peanuts and just being around peanut butter makes him start to feel sick.  And that's a level 2 which is a pretty low level since it goes up to level 6.  My mom is also allergic to peanuts and while she can touch peanut butter she certainly cannot eat it.  You should ask if the person has an epipen cause I have known people that say their kids have severe allergies to foods (like milk and fruit) and yet they don't have an epipen and have never been to an allergist to be tested.  I think now days people are diagnosing themselves so this might be the case with your friend's cousin.