Peanut allergies. In the 1950's, were school children occasionally carted off from the lunchroom experiencing.....

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32. We have a similar experience.

While my wife was holding our 18 mo daughter at home, I gave her one bite of a peanut butter sandwich I was eating. She immediately projectile vomited, got a rash and began wheezing. We went to the ER and her peanut allergy was suspected and later confirmed. It was a completely new phenomenon to us. She is my 4th child and there has never been such an allergy in ether my wife's or my family history. She's 21 and is at U of P studying nursing and has carried an epipen everywhere from the time she was able to administer it to herself. It has always been categorized as life-threatening.
It is puzzling to me to this day. I grew up eating and exposed to peanuts throughout my childhood and don't remember any other kid having such a reaction. I've always wondered if it's something environmental that's changed or if a suppressed gene is surfacing in populations.