VVV no ofense meant but perhaps your paediatrican could do a bit of his homework , outgrowing nut allergy is unlikely but not impossible, this is are extracts of some publications:
"Peanut allergy is an increasing problem in children. Recent research has identified that up to a third of allergic children will outgrow their allergy by the age of 7. Children are most likely to outgrow peanut allergy if they are male, do not have egg allergy and have not had other allergic diseases. " (www.ubht.nhs.uk/paediatricrespiratory/Asthma%20documents/Allergy%20info.doc)
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or this:
"21 per cent of the children had remission of presumed peanut allergy by age five, and that prognosis of peanut allergy could be predicted by either a constant rise, or constant fall in the level of immunoglobulin E (IgE) sensitisation to peanut by age three.
The investigators determined that a child was two to three times less likely to develop tolerance to peanuts if they had a wheal diameter on skin prick tests that was 6mm or larger before age two.
"A 3mm or greater rise of skin prick test wheal size between one and four years of age was strongly predictive of persistent peanut allergy whereas as falling levels was a good prognostic sign," Dr Allen said." (www.pca.com.au/articles.php?rc=901)
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or this which may sound familiar:
"Until now the rules have been that when you diagnose a patient with peanut allergy you tell them that it is a life-long allergy, with no chance of being outgrown.
"I recommend from this study that children with peanut allergy be re-tested on a regular basis, every one or two years," he said.
Professor Woods found that children who lost sensitivities to other foods like milk and eggs were much more likely to outgrow their peanut allergies than those who did not.
"We saw a few allergic people who did not react when they had an accidental exposure or when they were re-tested as part of our normal follow-up of food allergies.
(news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1160218.stm)
Unfortunately DS doesn't fall into any of those categories, so, as I have said several times, I have given hope of DS outgrowing his peanut allergy but... that doesn't mean that other children won't