Can someone with a severe peanut allergy go to a baseball game?

As long as you are not eating the peanuts there is no reason to be paranoid about peanuts ” in the vicinity.” lol
I’m highly allergic to poison oak but as long as I don’t rub my body in the bushes it’s all good.

@Coloma But if someone is allergic enough so that they won’t serve peanuts on a plane….why would the baseball game be any different?

I have a family member with severe peanut allergies. He avoids those situations if he can. He will get hives on his hands by just touching the hand railing or putting his unprotected arm on the arm rest.
If he must go to a place where peanuts might be served, he will take an antihistamine, wear long sleeved shirt, try not to touch anything, and will carry an Epipen. He’s not faking it.
We do not serve any food with peanuts or cooked in peanuts oil when he comes for family events. It is a small sacrifice that makes a huge difference to him.

Why is the baseball game different from the airplane? You cannot call an ambulance on an airplane. If someone has an anaphylactic reaction you cannot get medical attention within 5 minutes in the air. You can’t slap in a IV. At a ball game at least you have a chance of getting an ambulance there in time.

An airplane is a confined space, with recycled air. The peanut dust doesn’t disperse. A baseball game is held in a massive open-air (usually) stadium.

From my experience @deni, they avoid peanut situations as best they can.

My aunt and cousin have to avoid eating, breathing and touching peanuts (my aunt has to avoid all legumes). When it fails, they have to pull out the Epi-pen.

The rest of my story is the same as @LuckyGuy.‘s

I will add that my aunt coded 5 times at the hospital after inhaling the aroma from cafeteria making peanut squares at the school she worked at (she went into the lunchroom to buy a milk). The EMTs finally had to use an infant breathing tube to stabilize her, as her throat had nearly swollen shut in the few moments it took them to get there. Had another co-worked not understood that my aunt needed her Epi-pen, she would have died in the school.

In the hospital, they informed family members that she was most likely not going to make it and brought in the grief counselor for them.

No, open air or not, people with peanut allergies cannot be around peanuts. The allergy can become more severe without the person’s knowledge.

So, in general, the answer is no…..they will avoid baseball games. Shame. :( Interesting though. Thanks guys!

People without allergies cannot understand how deadly peanut allergies, PA, can be. The response is often: “Really? You can’t have even one? Don’t you miss them?”
People with severe allergies learn to eat at certain restaurants and order certain foods. It is best to let them be in charge of the restaurant choice. It is a small price for us to pay for the enjoyment of their company.

If you have PA and your date is stupid or thoughtless enough to eat something with peanut oil or peanuts in it you cannot kiss them or make contact for the rest of then night – or else risk having your throat close as @SpatzieLover mentioned.
They probably won’t mention it but might kiss you on the forehead at the end of the date. ;-)

I wasn’t aware that one could have a reaction from just touching a peanut. I thought it was only if they were ingested. Learn something new every day. :-)

@Coloma My aunt can’t touch or smell split pea soup, either. That can be very limiting as to where one can go for lunch or dinner in the midwest during fall/winter.

@Coloma Yep. If he touches the railing or even a keyboard that someone else has been using with contaminated fingers, he will get hives on his fingers.

@SpatzieLover @LuckyGuy

Makes sense I guess, I feel like I can get poison oak from just looking at it. Have a nice little patch on my neck right now from snuggling the cats. :-(

@Coloma I once had poison oak in a not so nice area. As a kid, I got it from riding my tire swing. That is life experience I will never forget.

I myself get hives from wild flower honey and from watering (even 10–15 ft away) pines.

One day at work I ate a packet of peanuts at my desk. The following day someone who has a peanut allergy used my computer, he had an anaphylactic reaction and was off work for two days just from touching the same computer keys that I’d touched the day before. (For the record, I didn’t know he had an allergy – he stupidly didn’t tell anyone until that happened). So yes, it’s pretty serious stuff. If I had a peanut allergy I wouldn’t risk going to a baseball game if peanuts were served there.

@downtide Thank you for passing that info on. You showed it’s not psychosomatic nor are the sufferers faking the reaction. It’s truly life threatening.