Why am I allergic to peanuts?

Why am I allergic to peanuts?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How are insect allergies treated?; What are "food allergies"?; What are "hives"? and more...

Now peanut allergy can range from anything from a rash or mild indigestion to death. A life threatening reaction leading to death if it's untreated. We don't know why peanut allergy is so difficult it's so violent it's so aggressive in allergic reaction but it is. And so patients or parents of patients who have been identified that has allergic to peanuts usually by having a bad reaction, they eat a candy bar with a peanut in it, the throw up hives, or they have trouble breathing or they wind up to the emergency room. They are identified and by a skin test or by blood test we can confirmed that this is a truly an allergic reaction and it wasn't something that they just have indigestion or they collapse or they fainted. After the peanut allergy has been definitely diagnose. Then patients are instructed on how to avoid peanuts what foods to avoid instructed to how to make their homes peanut free their taught to read labels and their given a happy pen.