Hi our allergist told us that usually Blonde hair blue eyed children have allergy to foods. I have no idea if this is any of your cases but my son fits this to a tee. My daughter is olive skinned brown eyed and darker hair than him. My brother has blue eyes and food allergies. My little 2 year old has the blue eyes and light hair. I am not sure yet with him. My younger brother is blue eyed and allergic to bees. My whole family is Irish also. My grandfather was from Ireland. this is so interesting. MY husband is where my daughter gets her looks and my boys look just like my side. My daughter started out looking just like myself and completly changed to daddy side. his is very interesting. Claire

My mother and father are both from P.R. and my husband's family history is traced back to Scotland. It is my 4th and youngest who has P.A. and yes she also has long lashes but so do all my children. They are all caucasion but I wouldn't exactly call them fair skinned. My P.A. DD has brown hair and normal ht.& wt. for a 4 year old.
Are we related? ;-) I guess if we aren't genetically, we are related to some degree. I have a wonderful child that I have to protect and educate about a potentially dangerous allergy. If you do too, then I can relate!

Thanks so much for starting this thread! This is th type of thing to provoke statistics and the beginnings of hypotheses!! I have often wondered why the Food Allergy Network doesn't send out a survey to all members!!????!?!?!?
My pa son Alan is blond with blue eyes (and, yes, long lashes!), and very petite. We thought he was the first in the family with food allergies, but my adult cousin just developed a severe banana allergy a few years ago...and....I just found out last week that another of my adult cousins (half Irish) recently learned she is severely pa.
I am 5'1" and fair-skinned (ditto the comment about looking like a ghost - that's me!). I have dark brown hair and blue eyes and my ethnic background is Irish, Italian, and Lithuanian.
My husband is 5'7" and also fair-skinned. He has strawberry-blond hair, blue eyes, lots of freckles. Just adorable! His background is primarily Norwegian & Danish, but he says there is a smorgasbord of other ethnicities too (small percentage, though).
I hope we can keep this survey going!

Well, my husband and I are both Jewish, of Eastern European descent. And, I do not fit the "petite mom" syndrome, although I wish I did! I'm interested in this thread, as I had actually thought that food allergies are common among Jewish people. When I mentioned this to a woman at FAN, however, she seemed to get quite annoyed with me, and told me that ethnic background has nothing to do with food allergies. I don't know how she could be so certain, however.

I am 6'1" tall and 160lb male. Very slender to say the least. I have extremely long eyelashes, was blonde as a child, green eyes. I am now 22.
I was one month premature. My ethnic background is mostly German and Norwegian but I also have Irish and Italian ancestery. I have environmental and food allergies besides peanuts. My mother's family has some very small women in it...my mom though is 5'7". I am the only person in my family that has even a hint of food allergies. My mother was also a clean-freak when I was growing up...maybe I had a really bored immune system?
BTW: My boss' son is PA. He is half African-American and my boss' wife is caucasian. So atleast he would have the chance of having some caucasian traits, particularly those carried on the maternal side.

I'll throw a couple things in here.
First, I'm Half Asian(Phillipines) and the other half a mixture of French/German(Just in reply to ScaredoftheWalnutAisles' post I do have Thalssemia(genetic) and I passed this on to my daughters,definately an Asian trait). My wife is Caucasian and I would say fits the "petite" model with Blond hair and Hazel eyes. My daughter with the PA has a mix of our traits,light green eyes and very dark hair. As with Lam's post she is definately ahead of her age in intelligence and understanding [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]
To throw a little change in the mix I have a cousin who is 100% Filipino who's wife is 100% Japanese. Their son is PA(because of this my wife blames my side of the family for our daughter's allergies..lol)

Very interesting. My 5 year old PA daughter is extremely fair with white-blond hair, blue eyes and extremely long eye lashes. The eye lash connection is interesting. Her father's eyelashes are strikingly long and from the time my daughter had eyelashes people would comment on their incredible length. Also, it seems there are a lot of PA children who are in the 5 to 6 year old range. Please comment on age.