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2. How to deal with an allergy to nuts?

There is no specific medicine to treat allergies to nuts. The improved treatment, without a doubt it’s as simple as avoiding eating all foods or products containing nuts.

We must bear in mind that some people are so sensitive that not only should avoid eating them but also unable to take foods that are made with the same instruments that are used in the processing or manufacturing products that contain them. In these circumstances plays a key role food labeling.

They also may have an allergic reaction just by smell or touch them with skin. If we have a child with nut allergy is the vital importance of information on such an allergy to any person you let the child (school, family, friends), even in bars and restaurants when we eat away from home.

3. How to read a label for a diet without nuts?

If you have a child allergic to nuts, the key is to avoid giving foods or products containing such products, it is essential to read all labels very well. Make sure that the food label does not include these ingredients and avoid them: Almonds, Brazil nuts, Cashew, Hazelnuts, Sunflower seeds, Chestnuts, Nuts, Peanuts, Pistachios, and etc.

4. Hidden sources of nuts

We should avoid eating:
- Ethnic foods, baked commercial products suffer because they add more and more nuts in the process.
- Sweets, cakes, pastries and baked products with unknown ingredients.
- Muesli and fruit for breakfast cereals and bars with salted nuts.
- Energy bars and sports bars of concentrated feed.
- Sweets and candy bars.
- Vegetarian dishes flavored with nuts and some veggie burgers or soy.
- Cookies and salty snack.
- Prepared salads and salad dressings. We must not overlook the pesto sauce is made with nuts.
- Typical Christmas products such as marzipan, nougat and nougat.
- Candy with nuts (M & M, Snickers, Hershey bars with nuts, Hershey’s Kisses chocolates with almonds and salted nuts bars).
- Pasta and creams that contain tree nuts (Nutella ® and the like).
- The Gianduja (a creamy mixture of chocolate and chopped toasted nuts.)
- Nut oils (sunflower oil, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts).
- Extracts to which artificial flavors are added.
- Bakery products containing nuts (seed bread).
- Eye barbecue sauces, crackers and ice cream, and today manufacturers tend add nuts.
- Avoid mashed almond extract.

If people allergic to pistachio and cashew nuts should be excluded from your diet the handle, as it is of the family Anacardiaceae.