If you want to control the passionate advances of your husband tonight all you have to say is that you had nuts during lunch. Yes, a simple kiss can cost you your partner’s life if he or she is allergic to foods like nuts. Experts opine that food allergens have the potential to stay on in the saliva for several hours after eating.
In 2005 for instance, a teenager from Canada lost her life to kissing her boyfriend. It was later revealed that she died of respiratory failure after having kissed her boyfriend who ate a peanut-butter sandwich few hours before kissing her.
About 125 cases of anaphylaxis have been reported since 12 years now in Britain alone. Though none of the cases are related to eating nuts, many people are oblivious about the dangers associated with nut allergies too like a respiratory failure or heart attack.
Nut allergies can occur as early as when you are a kid of 12 years. Acute case of an allergic reaction to foods like nuts can be — swelling hands, itchy throat and breathlessness. Professor Gideon Lack, an expert who diagnoses food allergies in kids opines that “nut allergies“ has been on the rise since the past 10-15 years. The professor believes that our immune system has become too clean and bored to attack a dangerous protein; so much so that it attacks a friendly protein like nuts itself.
For example, he reveals that pregnant women in Asian and African countries are neither told not to eat peanuts nor are babies prevented from having peanut soup. As a result, a very small section of their society suffers from nut allergies. Instead, people in such countries are more prone to parasitic infections.
In western countries though, the professor opines that both pregnant mothers and breast-feeding mothers should be prevented from eating nuts as they can make their kids susceptible to allergens present in nuts.
Visit a specialist to check whether a nut allergy has outgrown you with time. On some occasions, diagnosis could mean applying almond extracts in the inner arm to see your reaction against a pine or brazil nut.
So if you’re not feeling too romantic tonight, all you have to really say to your husband is that you got nutty all through lunch rather than having to make the same lame excuses that you’re sleepy or got a headache. Jokes apart! Remember what foods your partner is allergic to and consult a doctor as to the choices you may have to alter as per the taste and preferences of your partner. So much for love ain’t it?
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Interesting to know.