Question about reaction

Adele, this sounds EXACTLY like a mild aerosol exposure or possibly a contact reaction. This is precisely what happens to my daughter if we attempt to eat in a restaurant which is serving breakfast (eggs) at the time. It is also what happens if DD is "trapped" talking face to face with someone who has PB breath. (ick) Or being in the grocery store when they are baking who knows what...
It really sounds like an aerosol exposure, going by our experience. Though in my daughter's case, PN exposures almost always come with hives...eggs not so much.... tn less predictable.

It sounds as though it could have been something unrelated to the food, though-- do you have any environmental allergies to things like perfumes or anything? Weird timing with dinner, though, huh?
I cannot emphasize enough how unpredictable the type of symptoms can be from one pn reaction to the next. So you could have hives one time and not the next...I am glad that you are okay. [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

My first thought was that it's environmental. Did you spend time with someone who might have been wearing perfume, or maybe has a cat or dog, or perhaps a wool coat? Could they have not done a good job dusting? Maybe mold in the ceiling tiles?

Thanks for your feedback. Who can tell what it was,
Environmental? Food? The room was fairly new and clean. It's not like me to have itchy eyes/runny nose, etc.

This is what I find so frustrating about allergies!
thanks,
Adele

Not to try to add to your list or anything, but you know the restaurant at work where I recently had my ana reaction to shellfish? For months and months I've been eating there and have all of a sudden gotten a runny nose. Like a faucet. For no reason.

I thought it was the tamarind salad dressing because it's related a bit to peanut. But no. It was (I'm thinking) xcontam from shellfish. It was my body saying, "Whoa nellie--this place isn't very careful--it's not good for you." Sure enough.

Perhaps you're not facing a xcontam issue, but I just thought I had to throw that out there. For me it was runny nose, runny nose, etc.--then anaphylaxis--all from cross contamination.

Could they have had a mold problem? Sometimes musty places can set off my allergies and have lasting effects. I get that way from dog/cats too but it's probably unlikely they had animals in the facility.

Adele, my son has never had a reaction that solely affected his eyes, but that doesn't mean anything really.

Do you have any environmental allergies that you know of?

Since I moved "back home" I have been having a heckuva time with allergy eyes and I have to assume that it's because I've moved back to a big city where there is more pollution.

But that's what comes to mind for me as well, environmental something.

Depending on the day, I can have my breath taken away (can feel it in my chest) if someone is wearing too strong a perfume.

I've also had other strange things happen like swelling feet when I go into someone's home (having removed my shoes) that has used carpet freshener when they vaccuum.

But then, it sounds as though all of what I would think the major environmentals that would make you feel that way weren't in the room.

My Mother developed environmental allergies at 70+ years of age.

Not very helpful, but sorry to hear you ended up kinda miserable when you had checked everything out so thoroughly and been careful.

Best wishes! [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]

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"That was Polanski. Nicholson got his nose cut."

I get those reactions all the time in hotels/convention halls, etc. I even get it everytime I go to one of our satellite offices - ironically the newest, cleanest one, LOL. I assume it's mold or something in the ducts.

Annoying, eh?

Amy