Can a Spanish speaker help me with this allergy card to show restaurants in Spain?

[KimGa]

Last time we holidayed in Menorca we struggled to get waiters in restaurants to understand when we tried to tell them about our son's nut allergy as we don't speak Spanish fluently.

Next weekend we are travelling to the Costa del Sol and I have since discovered allergy cards exist that you can show to a restaurant. I want to create my own. I have put my English wording into google translate but I wonder whether someone could kindly check sense-check the Spanish for me?
Mi hijo tiene una alergia alimentaria grave. Para evitar una reacción alérgica potencialmente mortal, no debe consumir ningún alimento que contenga frutos secos.Por favor, confirme que su comida no contenga frutos secos ni derivados. Asegúrese de que su comida se prepare con utensilios y equipos limpios para evitar la contaminación cruzada. Gracias.
I am hoping it says:

My son has a serious food allergy. To prevent a life-threatening allergic reaction, he must not any food which contains nuts.

Please confirm his meal is free from nuts and nut products. Please ensure his meal is prepared using clean utensils and equipment to prevent cross-contamination. Thank you.

The Spanish is a faithful translation, yes

You can buy a plastic or digital card from AllergyUk. I've done this for my 1yo and you can select the allergies from their list.

Thank you. I have seen the cards you can buy but I was hoping to save the £20 by creating my own with my printer and laminator.

I’m sure that you do already but - - you do have EpiPens and prescription liquid piriton or equivalent for the plane etc? Most airlines no longer carry EpiPens on board and my middle child has also encountered some push back from airport security ( UK not abroad!) in relation to his antihistamine syrup even with a doctor’s letter because it was not in a bottle with a pharmacy label.

If it’s any comfort, when he was little on family holidays in Spain, I found the Spanish very careful overall.

Also worth notifying airline in advance so they don’t hand out peanuts on the plane and they may well make a ‘no nuts please’ announcement at the start of the flight.

I'd just pay the twenty quid for a professionally translated and produced card to keep my child safe. Why wouldn't you?

OP my Spanish is from Latin America so maybe it’s different in Spain but I wouldn’t have understood that from the text you provided which to me suggests he’s allergic to dried fruit. Nuts (as in peanuts) to me is cacahuetes. But it’s pretty important you get this 100% right. I may well be wrong but I’m worried what you have is incorrect.

THIS IS A SLIGHTLY BETTER TRANSLATION

Mi hijo tiene una alergia alimentaria grave. Para evitar una reacción alérgica fatal no debe consumir ningún alimento que contenga nueces y frutos secos. Se ruega confirmar que su comida no contenga ni nueces, frutos secos ni sus derivados. Se ruega confirmar la preparacion de su comida con equipos de cocina limpios para prevenir la contaminación cruzada. Gracias.

(Although everyone else here seems to think it’s correct which suggests it is)

Frutos Secos means nuts in general. Cacahuetes specifically are peanuts.

@KimGa I've added in "nueces" for you to clarify and tidied it up a bit

Personally I don't eat out with my children who have allergies unless I am absolutely confident the restaurant has understood me.and that I have understood what precautions to take.

We just self cater unless we go to France (I speak french). I wouldn't be able to relax if I wasn't sure.

I would definitely as a minimum pay for the allergy UK cards rather than trying to crowd source an answer . The allergy UK ones have a fair bit of detail on them and also details of how to call for help /explain to paramedics

If he is allergic to all nuts I would recommend listing out all the different types of nuts and their names in Spanish.

Dd is fluent in Spanish and immediately said the same as you.

Yes he always carries his EpiPens, liquid anti-histamine, inhaler etc. We are used to going on aeroplanes with them and notifying the airline in advance - he’s secondary age and have been dealing with it for a decade.

I only just discovered the idea of showing a card though rather than trying to explain verbally in restaurants as we have done previously.

Nueces are walnuts

Dd said nueces is better

I use Google translate for whatever country I am going to and paste it into my notes on my phone. It’s worked fine and never had an issue.

I have lived in Spain for 25 years, my husband is Spanish and i have been a Spanish to English translator for years. Frutos secos in Spain means nuts in general (peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts etc) and everyone here will understand frutos Secos to mean nuts NOT dried fruit, especially in the context of allergies.

OP, your text is perfectly understandable.

My high school Spanish would also have translated frutos secos as dried fruits so maybe @Nejma 's translation would be safer?

It is not. Nueces means walnuts, not nuts in general. Frutos secos means nuts.

https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=fruto%20seco

List the specific nuts as well as using the general term. And there’s about a million different words for peanuts in Latin and South America so check it’s the right term for Spain.

He’s actually allergic to walnuts and pecans only but allergy doctor always advises us to say no nuts as a blanket policy in restaurants to avoid confusion.

He does not have an airborne allergy. We will mainly self cater but usually go out and he will order something ‘safe’ like pizza a few times.

I can pay for an official card if necessary, I didn’t know the translation would be so complicated (and am also worried about whether they will get it right, given the discrepancies here).

Cacahuetes is peanuts in Spain.