As you might imagine, I've become an overnight scholar on legume allergies, and I'm pretty confident I found the smoking gun in DD's case. It knocked my socks off to learn that most peanut allergic kids are also sensitized to tree pollen. I also learned that many pollen producing trees are legume trees, such as locust, acacia, etc. Then I learned that local governments and landscapers plant mostly male trees of all varieties to avoid having them bear messy fruit or flowers. So cities and suburbs, where legume allergies are worst, are blanketed in insane amounts of tree pollen because of the trees planted by people!! This is not how mother nature would have designed our forests and communities. Our built "natural" environment is causing this meteoric rise in legume and other allergies!!
It's truly stunning when you think about it. Peanut allergy is worst in urban areas, and we're all led to think about the hygeine hypothesis, when the opposite may be true. Our immune systems are bombarded with wholly unnatural levels of pollen! This may even explain her early hives around her mouth in response to eating cinnamon. Cinnamon is the bark of the Cassia tree, a legume!!
Here's an interesting article explaining legume allergies. Given the estrogenic properties of all legumes, I guess she's not missing much! I'm one step closer to adopting the Paleo diet!
http://www.allergyfree-gardening.com/ar ... ollen.html
