[Yaelle]

What about the rise of people who were not allergic and exposed all their lives. Then suddenly get allergies in adulthood?

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Me! Never had a food allergy in my life. Was hungry on the way to pick up the kids so grabbed a little pack of macadamia nuts, which I had enjoyed my whole life. Ate several, got dizzy, nauseous, couldn’t walk well, lips and tongue feeling fuzzy and swollen. Still somehow got the kids home. I thought I’d gotten a bad nut.

Then I took one macadamia nut out of a package a family member was eating from for days with no problems, and just having it in my mouth, all those symptoms came right back, and I hadn’t even swallowed any. I spit it out. Told a GI doc later and she gave me a script for epi—pen (which I’ve never filled but I guess I should) and told me that my allergy was the kind that leads to anaphalytic shock.

What does that come from? Different gut biome?

This story means I can’t kiss any Hawaiians, I guess. :(

[Ditter]

If you still have the macadamia nut package look on it for other ingredients.

Maybe it was not the nuts but flavor enhancing chemicals that were added.