The bright side is you can at least try and avoid them, and that's not nearly as hard as it used to be since they're supposed to disclose all the peanut related contacts products have now.
Me, I'm allergic to ant bites. Maybe not all kinds, but at least more than one kind. I have to carry an EpiPen at all times because ants can be anyplace, and they've almost killed me twice so far. It's me against the 10,000 trillion ants in the world, I know not where or when they'll strike next, I simply know there will be another attack.
Edit: This may interest you! I knew I'd just read something on the topic.
Peanut allergy cured in children using immunotherapy
A potentially life-threatening peanut allergy has been essentially cured in nine out of 10 recipients of a new treatment which gradually escalates the amount of peanut protein the body can tolerate.
Other treatments such as vaccines and antibodies are also under development, but the new oral immunotherapy is claimed to be the first to successfully allow people to tolerate such a food allergy.
"We've shown fantastic results, with 80 to 90 per cent of children being able to tolerate eating peanuts regularly after treatment," says Andrew Clark of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, who co-led the team that developed the treatment.
"Before the treatment, children and their parents had to check every food label, but now they can go out anywhere without fear of accidentally swallowing and reacting to traces of peanuts," he says.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24968-peanut-allergy-cured-in-children-using-immunotherapy.html#.VNG06y5SJLo
Hang in there, they're working on fixing your problem!