I thought I would share with you as I know hearing there was light at the end of the tunnel helped me when I had a scratching, hivey, reacting baby!
Dd1 (now 5.5) was diagnosed with very severe eczema by the eczema clinic at the age of 4 months. She looked like a little reptile she was so covered (the only clear bit of her was her ears and cheeks. She had allergic reactions to egg, lentils, strawberries and pineapple. Anyway to cut a long story short yesterday she had a successful egg challenge in hospital - her last remaining allergen. She is now food allergy free!! She is also almost totally eczema free (just occasional spots if she is ill or under the weather). She still has a dust allergy (which getting on top of helped hugely with the eczema) but no asthma so far.
Dd2 (now 3.2) had a successful baked egg challenge. She still has her CMP and lightly cooked egg allergies. She still has an epipen.
Another unexpected positive is that I have been terribly ill this year (and sadly still am although very slowly making improvements) (obviously this isn't the positive) and so to minimise work dd1 and dd2 have changed from packed lunches to school/nursery dinners.
I have been too ill to look after the dds so we have also had to trust anyone who can help us to look after the dds (granparents, friends etc) and no-one has made any mistakes and the epipen has not been used. Obviously this is a truly horrible situation in terms of my health but very positive in terms of allergies.
Anyway I just wanted to share, since the 'growing out' stories offered me a beacon of hope when I didn't know what to do with my itchy scratchy reactive baby!!