If You Can't Overcome It - Learn to Live with It

Dealing with a nut allergy can be extremely discouraging because it causes us to live in such a way that we have to avoid almost everything that is in the world around us.  As we learn about the different places that we may come in contact with this type of food, we suddenly begin to come to the conclusion that there is no place that is safe from it.  Although this may seem like the case whenever you are first learning about it, you would actually be surprised to find out that it is possible to successfully avoid nuts and still live a relatively normal life.

The way that you're able to do this is to become informed about the world around you.  This is not only the case when it comes to the type of foods that you eat but it is also the case whenever it comes to other things in our world.  For example, did you realize that many dog foods contain nuts as well as hamster food and even hamster bedding?  If you feed your dog is kind of food, you have to be careful that you never come in contact with it while you are feeding them.  Even if you are able to avoid this kind of contact, you may still have a reaction if your dog happens to lick you as his saliva will also contain the nut protein.

You also need to become very efficient at reading labels and being able to read between the lines.  Many foods are not going to come right out and tell you that one of the ingredients contains nuts but many of them do.  For example, did you realize that many salad dressings contain nuts?  You need to make sure that you understand exactly where the nuts are so that you can avoid them at all cost.

Since you are unable to overcome a nut allergy and it is going to be something that you're going to have to deal with for the rest of your life, you need to learn how to live with it.  This is not only because you want to be able to lead a fairly normal life, even though you're going to have to avoid many things in it, it is also because it means your very life if you happen to be uninformed about where the nuts are.