What you may not know about peanut allergy

I recommend people talk to a good, board certified allergist about this before cutting out any food. The info I have read from FAAN and from my son's allergist who is considered one of the top allergists in the USA is quite different from what ZFlores posted. A very high % of people who are peanut-allergic test *falsely* positive to soy. If one is eating soy just fine it is NOT recommended one cut it out of your diet (or any food.)

I would NOT take soy out of a diet of a child who is eating it just fine.

Most who are peanut allergic can eat soy. The % who are also allergic to it isn't even 50%. There are stats on this somehwere but I don't have the links. I can't remember but I *think* it is about 12 % at most. Maybe someone else has the link/info. It is for sure not anywhere close to 44%. about 60% of peanut allergic people will test positive but testing is only 50% accurate for positives for most food allergies and *less* accurate in the case of peanut allergic people being tested for soy. Soy is similar so causes a higher % of false positives.

I recommend you talk with your child's allergist, Zflores, before removing a food

then of course there is the lastest theory that the banning of a food can cause an allergy.

The simple truth is that no one knows what their child will be allergic to.
you just inherit a tendancy to become allergic.

my son is one of the 5% of peanut allergic that is bean allergic.
not something any one could have predicted.
he is also a bit odd in the fact that he is also has severe reactions to yeast extract.
he is kiwi allergic, a new and growing allergy, and used to have all the environmental allergies.

apart from the link between egg and peanut , none of his allergens could have been predicted until he had a reaction in front of us.

His list is pretty long , allergy wise, and i certainly woulndt reduce his choice of food because of a fear of having a reaction.
its short enough as it is

My son tested positive to peanut, treenut, soy and various other food allergies. He used to drink soy milk and eat soy yogurt for the protien. He has never had a reaction to soy except he did have eczema when he was a baby. When he was diagnosed with the allergies back in August, we removed all soy from his diet. This is nearly impossible because almost all prepared foods have soy. I discussed it with his allergist at our last appointment in October and she said that since he has never had a reaction to these types of foods then we should give them to him. She said avoid straight soy products like soy milk and actual soybeans. She also said that soybean oil and soy lethcitin are generally safe even for soy allergic people. We put things like bread and crackers in his diet, making our lives much easier. Skin and blood testing are so inaccurate, the only thing you can really go by is have they reacted to this in the past.