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Most healthcare professionals consider an allergic reaction to be anaphylaxis when it involves difficulty breathing or affects the heart rhythm or blood pressure. Any one or more of the ABC symptoms above may be present. In extreme cases there could be a dramatic fall in blood pressure.
Nuts and peanuts can cause allergic reactions, which are sometimes severe. A severe reaction to nuts is called anaphylaxis and can be life-threatening. Symptoms often start quickly, within an hour of coming into contact with a nut, and sometimes within minutes.
The person suffering from the allergy may have several symptoms all at the same time. These might include difficultly breathing, vomiting, dizziness and a rapid heartbeat. If someone has a...
Symptoms possibly caused by anaphylaxis include swelling of the tongue and or throat, breathlessness, vomiting, diarrhoea, flushed complexion followed by collapse and shock, from a depleted fluid volume. Anaphylaxis is sometimes associated with angioedema and or urticaria (hives).
How do nut allergies develop? Your chance of being allergic to nuts increases if other family members are allergic. The allergy usually develops during early childhood (under three years) with some children outgrowing their allergy by their fifth birthday. However, some people’s nut and peanut allergy persists for years and into adulthood. If you didn’t develop a nut allergy in childhood ...
Nut allergy affects around 1.4% of people in Europe. That’s an awful lot of people who may have to deal with nut allergy symptoms. So what are they? This article explains how to spot food allergies caused by peanuts and tree nuts. Also why it’s important to get medical advice as soon as you do spot them.
Nut allergy symptoms usually develop rapidly after a person eats or has exposure to nuts. Symptoms can range from a mild runny nose to the life threatening symptoms of anaphylaxis, which...
Severe symptoms: Difficulty breathing (wheezing, noisy breathing) Swelling in the throat (noisy breathing, drooling) Feeling faint or dizzy, looking very pale (lie the child down with their legs raised). If any of these severe symptoms occur get help straight away and dial 999 stating “anaphylaxis” (ana-fil-ak-sis).
Most allergic reactions to nuts occur within minutes (or sometimes hours) of eating nuts. Skin prick tests or blood tests that measure ‘specific IgE antibodies’ may be used to help with the diagnosis. These test results can be dificult to interpret without an allergy specialist.
Symptoms such as airway swelling, hoarse voice, breathing impairment, and drowsiness are often not correctly recognised as indicating anaphylaxis. Not all patients who report oral symptoms, facial swelling, and urticaria shortly after eating nuts have life-threatening primary nut allergy.