Why are there so many people allergic to all nuts yet we don’t see many people allergic to all fruits?
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Over the course of 10 years in nursing seeing thousands of patients allergy lists, without looking at actual statistics and just based on personal experience data:
I would say it’s about even distribution between 3 categories. Allergic to fruit. Allergic to nuts. Allergic to both fruit and nuts. Most common nut allergies I see are peanut specifically or all tree nuts. Most common fruit allergies are bananas and tomatoes.
Editing because I didn’t address OP question directly. I think it has to do with how we talk about allergies, more like how we don’t talk about our health generally with each other. In my experience outside of healthcare I have only heard about allergies in my life when having to bring food to a school either for myself as a child or to my own kids school now. There’s no homemade food coming in and generally it’s candy/goodies not a fruit salad your bringing so peanut/nuts are the most common to avoid..
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