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We are travelling to DLRP in December and one of us has an allergy to nuts and a life threatening allergy to peanuts. We have travelled overseas many times with this allergy and on our recent trip to WDW it was possibly the best place in the world we have ever been with regards to awareness about severe life threatening allergies and all of the staff are so well informed and at restaurants the chef comes to your table to explain what is safe and not so safe for you to eat.
We have special cards with the allergies written in different languages to hand to the restaurant staff and have lists of items that are likely to contain nuts. But I have just read somewhere that the use of peanut oil is very widespread in Paris and I have just had a mini stress attack. It is asian countries I have always been wary of travelling to, due to the high use of peanut oil (and America too really), I didn't realise that peanut oil was used so widely in Europe. Whilst the other nut allergies are severe, they are not life threatening, the peanut allergy is the major problem and its only a trace eg: a grain of salt, that has touched a peanut can touch a lip and that is enough to cause a reaction, to breathe in steam off a peanut meal is enough to cause a reaction.
Has anyone travelled to Disneyland Paris with a life threatening allergy, in particular a peanut allergy? How does Disney handle this? Are the staff well informed? Is peanut oil really that widely used in Paris and is it widely used at Disneyland Resort Paris?
We are well researched on items that may contain nuts (eg almond meal used in pastries etc, nuts in chocolates), its the oil that can be tricky, you think you are eating a piece of chicken, that doesn't have nuts but it's cooked in the oil.
Would appreciate any info from anyone who has travelled to Disneyland Paris with a nut allergy (or any other severe allergy).
Thanks
We have special cards with the allergies written in different languages to hand to the restaurant staff and have lists of items that are likely to contain nuts. But I have just read somewhere that the use of peanut oil is very widespread in Paris and I have just had a mini stress attack. It is asian countries I have always been wary of travelling to, due to the high use of peanut oil (and America too really), I didn't realise that peanut oil was used so widely in Europe. Whilst the other nut allergies are severe, they are not life threatening, the peanut allergy is the major problem and its only a trace eg: a grain of salt, that has touched a peanut can touch a lip and that is enough to cause a reaction, to breathe in steam off a peanut meal is enough to cause a reaction.
Has anyone travelled to Disneyland Paris with a life threatening allergy, in particular a peanut allergy? How does Disney handle this? Are the staff well informed? Is peanut oil really that widely used in Paris and is it widely used at Disneyland Resort Paris?
We are well researched on items that may contain nuts (eg almond meal used in pastries etc, nuts in chocolates), its the oil that can be tricky, you think you are eating a piece of chicken, that doesn't have nuts but it's cooked in the oil.
Would appreciate any info from anyone who has travelled to Disneyland Paris with a nut allergy (or any other severe allergy).
Thanks
