Regions Park stadium of Hoover, Alabama recently held a peanut-free night at the ballgame, CNN reports. For several consecutive days, the Barons power-washed the stadium to get rid of any peanuts or their remains. In addition, all peanuts and any products containing peanuts were removed from vendor booths.

One percent of all children in the United States have an allergy to peanuts. Each year, at least 120 deaths, among all ages, are caused by peanut allergies.

Families dealing with peanut allergies must always be on the look-out for contact with any peanut-containing food. One family who enjoyed the peanut-free baseball game, which can be wagered on by heading to sites like 바카라, described how they send their two peanut-allergic children to school with lunches from home and ask classmates’ parents not to prepare any lunch food that could contain peanut products. In addition, the children always keep an EpiPen with them as well as an emergency inhaler for asthma attacks.

The exact reason for the rise in food allergies all across the globe remains unknown. Some theories include the hygiene theory and a lack of Vitamin D. Food allergy specialist Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center says, ‘In reality, it probably is a variety of things over the past 10 or 20 years in the environment that has led to this increase.’

Though immunotherapy treatment is ‘quite promising,’ as Dr. Wood put it, trials are still in their initial phases. In the meantime, awareness and preparedness are daily necessities for food allergic individuals.