How do people with nut allergies fly?

If you're booking online, list out allergies in the “special services” section. If a traveler is peanut allergic, they'll refrain from serving peanut products and stock alternative snacks. The gate agents will also be notified in case you want to pre-board and wipe down the tray table, seat and arm rests.



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With a severe enough allergy, inhaling peanut dust can trigger a life-threatening emergency. In a confined space, any number of events could cause an issue: people dumping peanuts into their hands, dusting their hands off, accidentally sneezing while chewing the peanuts, etc.

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Canada is one of the easiest and safest places to travel with a nut allergy, thanks to its progressive attitude towards allergy awareness.

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The natural history of food allergy indicates that such allergy can be outgrown and therefore shows that it is possible to acquire tolerance after sensitization has occurred. Unfortunately, natural tolerance is infrequent for antigens such as peanut, tree nuts, fish, or shellfish.

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About 80 percent of people with egg, milk and wheat allergies outgrow them, usually by age 16. About 20 to 25 percent of children with peanut allergies outgrow them, and about 80 percent who outgrow them will do so by age 8. Allergies to tree nuts, fish and shellfish may be tougher to outgrow and are often lifelong.

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The one thing you need to do: Write an allergy card. It helped me so much in Thailand and I was a lot less paranoid of being served nuts. I researched a bit on the internet and found great forums where people had done this before.

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