: Does the form you eat an allergen in effect the reaction itself?

Question

Just curious if the different forms of food people eat can effect an allergic reaction differently. To give an example, someone with a peanut allergy eating a single full peanut (one form) vs a bite of some peanut butter on bread (another form).

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Answer 1

I can eat cooked spinach. The two times I ate raw spinach in a salad, it made me so sick I wanted to die. Puking and diarrhea at the same time, until every molecule was gone. So, my answer would be yes.