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A 16-year-old female asked:
I get an itchy face when i eat peanut butter but not normal peanuts?
2 doctor answers • 6 doctors weighed in
Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 51 years experience
Some thing in: peanut butter. You may be allergic to an additive in peanut butter that is not normally present in peanuts per se.
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Dr. John Chiuanswered
Allergy and Immunology 59 years experience
Interesting: I don't see the few extra agents present in peanut butter being the likely allergens and thus suspect that you may be allergic to a tree nut which has contaminated the processing equipment-most manufacturers process several nuts in the same equipment. Consider getting tested to tree nuts.
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