My youngest son was diagnosed with peanut allergy at an early age.
As an infant he would scream if you put anything with peanuts in his mouth. I thought it was funny ... who doesn’t like peanut butter. I figured he’d discover one day he likes peanuts.
He was tested for allergies and was found to be highly allergic to peanuts, among other things. But I didn’t know how dangerous the allergy was.
The few times he got something containing peanuts in his mouth, he would spit it out, saying it burned like fire. Once he washed his mouth out with water, and that made him get some of the food in his stomach. He vomited for hours.
One night at church they gave the young’uns ice cream, and they threw a handful of peanuts in the trough. He swallowed the ice cream ... apparently the cold prevented the pain reaction.
On the way home he stopped breathing. I was alone, and didn’t know this was how peanuts affect him. I was able to get him to an ER. They asked if he had peanut allergies. We found out later about putting peanuts in the dessert.
Peanut allergies can be deadly. My son doesn’t react to skin contact with nuts, but I know of people who have died from dermal contact with peanuts.
And you would be one of the very valid examples. I’m not saying these things don’t exist at all.
But a few too many crunchy-granola yuppie mothers have claimed that their kid has to be all but put on life support if someone drops a peanut in a mile radius, and between the claims and the demands for healthy kids for, say, banning them bringing a PB&J sandwich...it’s starting to get on people’s nerves.