I can't handle peanut candy any more

I have been testing the limits of my allergies.  

I have a hard time with a strict avoidance policy unless I can see the need for it myself.  I had that issue with chocolate; it took a week long migraine (yes there is such a thing) to drum it into me I couldn't eat chocolate anymore.  

Crab, too.  I had weeping hives all over both legs before I "got it".  And that was just a package of fake crab that said it might contain 2% real crab.  I can't imagine what a full bite of the real thing would have done to me, and that eliminates all the wonderful Houston seafood restaurants now as they all serve crab, shrimp, other crustaceans.  

I have been having issues with nuts for a long time now but it escalated when they kept putting me on the grocery zone handling packaged nuts and peanut butter crackers every day.  I had to tell them I couldn't do it as I was feeling very itchy, puffy (I wasn't swelling up though but I just felt puffy if that makes sense), chest tightness and trouble breathing.  

The grocery manager took me off that aisle and has asked me to wear gloves if there is even the hint of a nut on my aisle.  Makes sense.  I have been OK.  

Both my parents have allergies; Dad's are strictly environmental and my birth mother had food allergies, specifically to shrimp, which developed in her 30's.  Her first date after her last husband died and she swelled up and had to go to the ER, after eating shrimp.  

According to my half sister "Mom just took a couple of Benadryl every time she ate shrimp after that".  

I got to work pretty late on November 1st, the clearance Halloween candy was really picked over.  I got some Dove, the only other candy they had were a couple kinds of Reese's (peanut butter) candy.  

I thought I would try taking an antihistamine and wearing gloves, bagging them up to hand out.  I just did that.  

I didn't have a pro forma "reaction" but my immune response was such I won't be doing it again.  Even with the drugs and gloves (and a very strict cross-contamination avoidance) I still had itchy eyes that feel puffy again.  My hands were tingling and itching as well.  And this was taking wrapped candy out of the package and putting it into ziplocks with some other candy and a tract!  

I'm going to wear gloves when I hand them out, too.  

But that's it for nuts!