When Bronze was eight months old, Patrick and Brittany Mahomes had to rush their son to the hospital after introducing a new food to him. “We took a very scary and frantic trip to the ER yesterday after finding out this guy is highly allergic to peanuts,” Brittany shared in an August 17 Instagram Story (via E! News). “The scariest 30 minutes of my life.” The former soccer player paired the message with a photo of Bronze drinking from a bottle. “My perfect boy,” she added to the snap.
It seems Bronze’s allergy may have come from his dad’s side. In the summer of 2020, a few months after his first Super Bowl win shot him to stardom, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback was tested for food allergies amid efforts to ramp up his diet and fitness routine. It turned out that Patrick is allergic to nuts and grass, Men’s Health reported in February 2021. While a peanut allergy is different from a tree nuts allergy (peanuts are legumes, not nuts, after all), about a third of those who react to peanuts also react to nuts, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
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Fortunately, Bronze fully recovered from the scary episode, with Brittany updating her fans soon after on her Stories. But the bad news is that a peanut allergy tends to be lifelong, unlike other common food allergies like dairy, egg, soy, and wheat that children generally outgrow, Mayo Clinic notes.
