Originally Posted by
bennymac
my understanding is that allergies to tree nuts (almonds, cashews, hazlenuts etc) are much, much different than being allergic to peanuts in that you rarely if ever get a full blown anaphylactic response with tree nuts.
This is 100% false. There is no difference in the type of reaction that people who are very allergic to either get. Lucky you for only getting a little sick, but that is not the case for many of us.