2ndGen! Nope, definitely not a lone wolf around here. My spouse, my child, and myself-- all of us have multiple atopic conditions, and all of us have food allergies. Amongst the three of us, we've had a home free of all nuts, shellfish, milk, eggs, soy, wheat, and sesame seeds (though we don't have quite such a long list now, and as our DD has grown older, we do keep some allergens in the house and segregated).
We joke that there's no need for more than
one of us to actually
share a food allergy, though. Our coverage is best that way.
(Yes, I'm being completely tongue-in-cheek.)The hardest thing about this, I've found, is that once you exceed a SINGLE life-threatening food allergy, people's eyes tend to glaze and they instantly assume that you're one of
those people... self-diagnosed and with way too much time on your hands, YK? It's incredibly frustrating, and it's led DH and I to prioritize things so that we ONLY mention things that are anaphylaxis triggers when in the hands of
others around us. (That is, regardless of how careful we are as individuals-- risk remains high through unwitting contamination on the part of others, and that's obviously out of our control).
That list is simpler-- shellfish, eggs, and nuts, at least for my household. Split DD and I up and it gets better still, since mine only includes shellfish and hers only nuts and eggs. (Though to be fair, egg probably isn't something that we mention much anymore either given that we've done years of baked egg dosing and she recently passed an in-office-challenge... though maybe/maybe not, too).
Anyway. A
very warm welcome to you from the family here at FAS!