Don't downplay peanut inhalation reaction to contact, you weren't there

I sympathize with you. I have a friend whose daughter ends up in the hospital from smelling fish cooking.

I have a friend who works at a correctional facility. One of the inmates also has a extreme fish allergy. They can no longer serve fish at the facility. Because even though the kitchen is over a football field's length away, the man has a severe reaction every time they cook fish.

Contact is contact. Peanut protein getting into the lung tissue is contact. And it is terrible for those like you who are super sensitive.

It is sad but when I read about the family that raised $10,000 for their daughter to get a peanut sniffing dog, that may be what will be necessary for far too many people.

Peanut butter cookies baking... I never thought that something like that could be lethal.

These extreme allergies are still so new. Most people can't relate.

Wow... I never thought about Peanut Butter cookies baking in the bakery of a grocery store. I know there have been several times that we have walked into a grocery/department store only to have Kylie start sneezing, coughing, eyes start watering, blotches appearing and when would have to leave immediately, administer benedryl and watch her closely to make sure our next stop wasn't going to be an emergency room. We just assumed there was an open bin of peanuts somewhere close by, never would have dreamed it could be the smell of cookies baking.

Needless to say, Kylie is also super sensitive so we can sympathize with you also.

I definitely believe that there are people who can be affected by inhalation. I just made a post about what happenned to my son today at the park from breathing in the fumes from someone's PB&J sandwich. I am afraid that he has this super-sensitivity.