Natasha Amoretti and her daughter.When Natasha Amoretti was just four years old, she ate a cashew nut. Minutes later, she was covered in hives, her throat was swelling up, and her stomach was in agony. Her mum was having a dinner party and, thankfully, one of the guests was a doctor. He took one look at the four-year-old and declared she was experiencing anaphylaxis – a severe and potentially deadly allergic reaction. She was rushed to hospital and treated, before being told she’d need to carry an EpiPen, and was given a vague diagnosis of a nut allergy.“It was just a blanket statement of: you’re allergic to all nuts,” the now 35-year-old told HuffPost UK.It was a pivotal moment in her childhood. “I went from being this child that ate everything to being so scared of food,” she explained.She would check the packets of food and convince herself they contained nuts, even if they didn’t. “I lived with, what I didn’t know at the time, was anxiety,” she said.Amoretti summe
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