The cashew nuts would be even more susceptible than the peanuts to cause serious allergic reactions. It is what of the English researchers who have just published the results of a étude1 led by 141 children suffering from allergy to the peanut believe or to the cashew nut.
The English allergists compared the medical files of 47 children whose most serious allergic reaction was assigned to the cashew nut to those of 94 others that had an important allergic demonstration caused by the peanut. According to their results, there would have been eight times more of screaming breathing episodes at the children allergic to the cashew nut that at the other.
Besides, the serious cardiovascular symptoms (as the disruptions of the cardiac rhythm or the falls of the arterial tension), were 14 times more frequent at the first that at the second. On the whole, 21% of the children of the group cashew nut had had serious allergic reactions against 1% of the children of the group peanuts.
The physicians should prescribe a treatment of emergency systematically in case of allergy to the cashew nut, believe the researchers, since these symptoms are associated to a risk raised of crisis potentially fatal anaphylactique. The auto-injector of épinéphrine (adrenaline), best-known under the name of EpiPen®, constitute the emergency treatment indicated in case of crisis anaphylactique.
The number of allergies to the cashew nuts is in growth since some years. This walnut is more and more present in our food, what would explain the increase of allergic reactions, believe the researchers. One now finds it in a vast range of desserts and sweet, in several dishes of Asian inspiration, in pestos, of the cereals to eat lunch, of the bars of cereals, of vinaigrettes, of sauces, or even in shampoos and the bodily lotions.
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