‘Add peas to labels after my boy’s brush with death’

A morning before school, a nine -year -old Rex ate a warm donut. Minutes later, he was fighting to breathe and anaphylactic shock.

Rex allergic, peas and lentils – are materials that you will not expect to find widely in a hot cross bun. However, when Rex’s mother looked at the packaging, it turned out that the glass used in the bun contained pea protein and caused Rex’s allergic reaction.

Peas is not one of the 14 allergens that need to be listed on the food labels of the laws, but At the beginning of this weekExperts said that – as well as others – he said.

Rex’s father Tom says, “Many of them feel like they’ve fallen into a Bubi trap,” he says.

“We couldn’t understand why, or he says. “It wasn’t a vegan recipe.

After the anaphylactic shock, Rex was quickly given epipene and taken to hospital. He made a complete healing, but the hot cross donuts are not the only humble product in which he hangs out.

In June, along the heat wave, Rex bought an ice cream from a corner shop after school. As he ate this brand before, he did not control the packaging, but without realizing it, ice cream now contained pea protein and caused another allergic reaction.

Tom says that rex is now “horrified” from accidentally eating peas and having an allergic reaction.

With experts, 14 allergen list should be expanded to contain peas and acknowledged “angry”.

In accordance with the existing regulations, food packages in the UK and the EU already list the most common allergens for people such as eggs, peanuts and sesame seeds to be aware of.

While restaurants will list allergens in menus or inform customers verbally, they should usually be bravely emphasized on labels.

Rex is not the only child captured by peas protein in products.

In 2023, Becky gave his son a ice Lolly, whom he had eaten without any problems before. However, now the five -year -old boy began to cough quickly while his throat was irritated. Lolly contains peas protein – like Rex, his son is serious allergic.

For Becky and her husband, expanding the list of allergens in a way that includes open warnings for peas will be a “great weight” from their minds.

“Well, it probably doesn’t contain peas,” it’s harder because the peas in things you’ll never think of. “

“It’s like playing a roulette game.”

Although it becomes more common, people with peas allergies find that it is not taken as seriously as other allergies.

25 -year -old Charlotte is allergic to all pulses, including peas, chickpeas and lentils. He would gladly meet the expansion of the allergen list, because he will often inform more of his allergies because it is said to be “not a real allergy”.

“I think people think I’m just a hurry like a joke that people don’t like peas.”

“People don’t see it as a real allergy, and they don’t even understand what happened.”

Charlotte says it can make it quite difficult to eat. Two weeks ago, he went to dinner in London and had an allergic reaction, but insisted that the staff was not contaminated.

“I apologize for having an allergic reaction because I felt that I was very embarrassed for them.”

Becky also says that his son has similar experiences.

Eggs, peanuts, hazelnuts, sesames, chickpeas, peas and lentils are allergic, but the pea response is very different – even if it is not worse than the reaction to peanuts, even if it is not worse.

It is not only peas allergies that become more common. Experts also suggested that allergic reaction warning labels should be added to foods containing pine nuts, buckwheat and sheep and goat milk.

20 -year -old Annabel completed a degree at the University of Cambridge. He has a pine nut allergy, and he believes that adding them to the list of allergens can be potentially “life -saving” for him.

Like Charlotte, Annabel finds that it can be hit or missed to transmit allergies to restaurant staff.

Orum I often feel that my allergy is not taken seriously, or he says. “When I specify pine nut allergy, the majority of the time ‘peanuts?’

The staff usually say that there is no hazelnut at the dinner, but it only thinks that it means hazelnuts known as part of 14 allergies.

When the restaurants were informed that the food did not contain pine nuts, there were three anaphilactic reactions, including.

Annabel says that adding to the list will make you feel “much more sure” while eating outside.

“Many of my family likes to eat too much, and I don’t want to go often, or when I am with my friends, always the place where my epipens is located, what if something happens’, [so] It would be a big difference to me to have this security and not to worry. “

The Food Standards Agency said that he had previously noticed that there was a significant number of foods that could cause allergies or intolerance.

Alergy UK, considering worrying trends, said that he called for a full content tag on all food products.