"sm_jamieson" wrote
Since peanuts are not nuts ...
Is a peanut alergy and a nut alergy different things ?
Are there people allergic to nuts but not to peanuts ?
Just wondered, since there was a program about "nut allergies" and
they were talking about peanuts ?
Simon.


In susceptible people the allergic reaction triggered by the proteins in
nuts or peanuts is the same, but the actual trigger proteins are different,
apparently. You can apparently be allergic to either nuts or peanuts or
both. Don't know how closely related the proteins are.

H