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My sister in law is seriously alleric to nuts of all kinds, peas, all types of shell fish. And she is mildy allergic to eggs - she can have a little, but not alot...in baked goods is fine. You can imagine how difficult it is to cook for her.

I'm lactose intolerant; so, of course, many of my favorite foods are dairy based. I used to take OTC pills with dairy products, but this was very hit or miss, and *not* to be done away from home. Now, there's a daily OTC pill that allows me to have ice cream and (my favorite dairy) sour cream without even thinking about it. In the last ten years, I threw away my glasses (lasered) and now I can also eat onion-soup dip! My teenaged wishes came through, albeit a bit later than I'd hoped.

I am allergic to lobster. At first , for years my hands would itch when I ate them. Then, my throat started to tighten the last time I had one. That was enough to convince me not to eat anymore lobsters.

I'm allergic to eggs. No fun at all.

I'm allergic to milk and milk products. No cheese, cream, butter, ice cream, or yogurt for me. Not to be confused with lactose intolerance, which I sort of wish this was instead. Then I could take something for it. Oh well. At least soy products are better than they used to be.

Here's my odd allergy -- tomatoes. I eat them and my tongue and lips swell, espcially if eating raw.

I don't have any food allergies, thankfully. However, one time at a crab feed I did see someone have a violent reaction to crab. The ambulance was called, she fainted while the ambulance was still on the way. Luckily, there were some medical professionals there who were able to give her CPR and the EMTs took over when they got there, quickly performing a tracheostomy. Shortly thereafter she went into cardiac arythmia and I saw them breaking out the defibrilator as they sped off. Sadly, she died several days later without having regained consciousness.

yikes, Calichef.
We had a non-lethal but incredibly allergic experience with a friend of mine. Her sensitivity is such that she was affected by the trace amount of Nutella (a low nut-percentage product to begin with) left on a knife after it was washed, when she used it to put jam on another piece of bread. She got hit another time by having just a bite of someone's macaroni and cheese, which evidently had the smallest bit of nutmeg in the sauce. Both incidents necessitated hospital trips and oxygen tanks.
So scary to be this allergic! I feel lucky to have avoided any such afflictions thus far.

I am allergic to all nuts but peanuts because they are a legume.
It is an annoying allergy.
My friends are used to me bothering the waitstaff begging to know if nuts or nut oils were used.
My biggest problem is when people think you can just take the nuts off of the top of a dish and it would be fine for me to eat it. WRONG!
Nut oils seep into food when cooked!
Some Restaurants in NYC do list all of the ingredients, but some don't.
"English Is Italian", which is now closed, would ask if anyone had allergies and make you seperate dishes.
It was divine!

Rah! Tessa - you sound like me...vegetarian celiac is a tough combo. No one is celiac by choice, but being a vegetarian was a choice I wasn't prepared to forfeit to make the GF diet easier to manage.

I am lactose intolerant, and believe that I am sensitive to wheat (if I eat in more than once a week, or a lot at once, my stomach becomes upset), but I haven't had the wheat thing medically confirmed.