It's an interesting article, and helped explain why I absolutely cannot drink milk or eat ice cream but don't generally have much of a problem with cheese.
It did leave me with a couple of questions, though. At what point does a sensitivity become an allergy?
A sensitivity, as opposed to an allergy, happens gradually and isn’t life-threatening.
The peanut allergy that Son #5 developed occurred gradually. At first, he would just have some very minor swelling of his upper lip a few hours after he ate peanuts. As he continued to indulge over the next weeks and months, the swelling got much worse and eventually he had swelling and hives within a very short period of time after eating them. I mega-dosed him with Benadryl, but when we saw the doctor he said we definitely should have used an Epi-Pen on him. Live and learn ...
In any case, according to the chart in the article, he started out with a sensitivity; however, there's no doubt that he now has a full-blown allergy, including reactions to items without nuts but have been "manufactured on the same equipment which processes nuts".
Oh, and also ... Welcome to the Ohio Valley, Doctor:
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