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My teenage daughter developed peanut allergies in her mid teens while traveling with a drum corps one summer. She had noticed how ill she was feeling and syste

My teenage daughter developed peanut allergies in her mid teens while traveling with a drum corps one summer. She had noticed how ill she was feeling and systematically cut out foods until she narrowed the peanut butter sandwiches (she had been an avid peanut butter eater for years before). When she got back from tour and was tested she was confirmed for strong peanut allergies and had to carry an epi-pen. However, after about a year she got tested again and now had no reaction. I still attribute this to something else was in her system that triggered reaction in conjunction with the peanut proteins.

brookside 10y ago
Did she play a brass instrument by chance? Some mouthpieces are leaded brass. Also some players also have reaction to brass.
- sageikosa 10y ago
  Timpani. She played a flute also, but not over the summer. Every time I mention this people kind of look at me funny when I offer my co-trigger explanation as "some kind of bug", but I was reading Dawkins at the time and had come to stop thinking about unitary causes for phenotypic expressions. Of course, that's not the easiest course of conversation to travel down with most people, so I just sort of accept the silence that follows. It does give me the fun little anecdote of how my daughter was deathly allergic to peanuts for a year, but then she got better.
  - jaggederest 10y ago
    I feel like there are probably similar cotriggers for many chronic illnesses. The classic example is H. Pylori in stomach problems. I doubt that it's a lone outlier.
lucaspiller 10y ago
I was born and raised in the countryside and lived in the same house until I was 18. When I was around 11 I developed severe hay fever out of nowhere. It's not like I wasn't exposed to pollen before, as I was a typical country kid running around in fields and such. The doctor issued me the usual antihistamines, but they didn't really help so I just sucked it up every summer. When I was 17 I started wearing contact lenses - and after that no more hay fever. I thought at first the contact lenses were blocking the pollen from getting into my eyes, but I've now reverted back to almost always wearing glasses. 10 years later and no more hay fever. Go figure...
- Bombthecat 10y ago
  The contact lenses cured you?

brookside 10y ago

Did she play a brass instrument by chance? Some mouthpieces are leaded brass. Also some players also have reaction to brass.

sageikosa 10y ago
Timpani. She played a flute also, but not over the summer. Every time I mention this people kind of look at me funny when I offer my co-trigger explanation as "some kind of bug", but I was reading Dawkins at the time and had come to stop thinking about unitary causes for phenotypic expressions. Of course, that's not the easiest course of conversation to travel down with most people, so I just sort of accept the silence that follows. It does give me the fun little anecdote of how my daughter was deathly allergic to peanuts for a year, but then she got better.
- jaggederest 10y ago
  I feel like there are probably similar cotriggers for many chronic illnesses. The classic example is H. Pylori in stomach problems. I doubt that it's a lone outlier.

lucaspiller 10y ago

I was born and raised in the countryside and lived in the same house until I was 18. When I was around 11 I developed severe hay fever out of nowhere. It's not like I wasn't exposed to pollen before, as I was a typical country kid running around in fields and such. The doctor issued me the usual antihistamines, but they didn't really help so I just sucked it up every summer. When I was 17 I started wearing contact lenses - and after that no more hay fever. I thought at first the contact lenses were blocking the pollen from getting into my eyes, but I've now reverted back to almost always wearing glasses. 10 years later and no more hay fever. Go figure...

Bombthecat 10y ago
The contact lenses cured you?