..or more specifically peanuts.
It is amazing what you learn. I'd always thought that nuts were nuts were nuts and that if you had a nut allergy then all nuts were verboten. Not so. Apparently peanuts are different to other nuts such as almonds, brazils etc -presumably because they are a 'below-ground' nut as opposed to a 'tree' nut.
So LOML (who as you probably remember is severely coeliac and food-challenged in many other areas) has been quite happily consuming almonds, walnuts, cashews, pistachios to her heart's content. Until. Until I tried out a new Indian dish that featured peanuts.
Oh boy..oh boy. Not a full-on anaphylactic shock but certainly a much stronger reaction than 'mild'. Swollen tongue, glands, neck, throat - fortunately starting to go down but she was starting to wonder about going down to the surgery (which for her shows just how bad a reaction she'd had). Frustratingly she won't take any anti-histamine tablets as she doesn't want to run the risk of any side-effects and so is reliant on her body reducing the histamine level by itself. But not a happy bunny. Almost got to the point of Googling 'emergency tracheotomy' and wondering if I had a Bic I could spare.