The doctor wasn't very sympathetic (but he had a beard)

[venta]

So, I took myself off to the doctor following my cobnuts episode last week.

I got to see my doctor-of-preference at the practice: the one who listens, and then makes sensible remarks. We agreed that since:

(a) I eat many other kinds of nuts without issue
(b) it was a relatively mild reaction, and it began to pass before I'd taken an antihistamine
(c) I've had mild reactions to hazelnuts in the past, so it's not a wholly new thing

probably the most sensible course is to avoid hazelnuts and cobnuts from now on.

She seemed to think the nutritional benefits of continuing to eat other nuts outweighed the risk of a reaction. She did offer to send me off for formal allergy testing, but since they're extremely busy and I already know what the problem food is, we decided that there was not a whole lot of benefit in having someone formally say "don't eat hazelnuts".

Now I just need to work out where I stand on praline :(

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[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that for years, whenever I've eaten hazelnuts, I've had a mildly annoying tingly mouth that I've then promptly forgotten about. I'm pretty sure pralines have never caused that effect.

And I get that reactions can get worse, but I think I'm not inclined to go down the manic avoidance route unless it starts to be more of a problem. The doctor didn't think it was likely I'd develop the collapsy-death kind of reaction, so I can afford to experiment a little :)