Fantastic News........ds has outgrown his peanut allergy

[mymama]

Ds had an oral food challenge in hospital today. He was tested for peanut butter and hazelnut. He passed both tests with flying colours. No reaction at all - not even a dot.

He is extremely lucky.

Specialist advised me that we now have to make sure he eats something peanut related once a week to lower the risk of reoccurance.

Very surreal to spend 31/2 years strictly avoiding peanuts and panicking at the mere sight of anything peanut related to dishing it up once a week. Think it will mess with my head for a while.

So was it an allergy or an intolerence?

Wow that is fantastic. The news we all dream to hear. My dd is peanut allergic. I know they do say that about eating them if you out grow the allergy. Yes, its will be bizarre for you! It will be difficult to not cringe anymore. Very good news, thanks for sharing it with us. Will give us some hope!

wow well done! That's briliant. With the stats for growing out of it being what they are, you imagine it won't happen.

Gives everybody hope!

It is brilliant news. I am still ning. I am excited for ds iyswim. As hard as it was for us to deal with it was his life.

lojomojo it was an allergy. He was at risk of anaphylaxis. We found out when he was 7 months old and have carried epipens and vigilantly avoided it for the last 31/2 years.

His chances were good though. We found out very young, no family history, no asthma, eczema or allergies to dust mites or other environmental factors. He had never had peanut products. We found out through skin testing after a major reaction to wheat at that time. He has since outgrown that allergy too.

It does give hope to others. I thought this was going to be lifelong for ds. I didn't dare to hope he would outgrow it. He tested negative with skin tests 12 months ago and then negative again one month ago so we went for the challenge.

so for you and your ds, i know what an impact a severe allergy has on all your lives

My dd2 is allergic to peanuts, she's 5 - I am hopefull that she'll grow out of it, but I know the chances are slim. Good to hear of a good result.

Good luck with eating peanuts - that would be very weird for us. (we give peanuts a dirty look as we pass them in the supermarket)

really good news!!

That's wonderful. Enjoy the peanuts

Brilliant news, am so pleased for you!

My ds has a case history v. like yours, and I do hope that one day..... I know what you mean about giving him nuts, though. I can't bear to be around nuts anymore , esp peanuts, even when ds isn't with me. Can't imagine giving them to him, though of course it would be wonderful if I could.

Still [grin} [grin}.

So far so good. There has been a lot of peanut butter sandwiches and toast for my dd. It was her favourite food and she hasn't had it for 31/2 years.

ds could take it or leave it. He has had one piece of toast with it on.

that's great. Keep making him eat some peanuts.

Satay is a good one, the little pieces of chicken, the cute little sticks and gluten free too!

[s mile][smi le][smile ] Mymama, I'm so very happy for you and your family! Relief at last!

Very happy for you and it gives me a little hope for my dd.Congratulations...it will be weird at first, I can well imagine!

lol Chandra. Thanks everyone for the replies and positive support.

I found mumsnet two years ago when I was trawling the net for info on allergies. It has been invaluable for advice and realising we are not alone. ds still has his egg allergy but it is easily managed.

Many congrats mymama, that's such good news. I had understood that peanut was much more likely to stay for life so that's fantastic.

Could I please hijack slightly to ask about your experience (or anyone else's?) of the oral challenges? My ds was milk & egg allergic (~10mm response to skin prick) - diagnosed after an anaphylactic reaction when he first had formula at 6 months. Today we've had a new skin prick test (he's 3y2m) and there was no response to milk and only 2mm to egg. I've been booked for the challenges but 3month wait... part of me is wondering why we shouldn't just offer tiny amounts ourselves. After all we still have the epipens. Also do you have any idea how the reduced response to egg would manifest itself eg. cooked egg OK but not raw? Or yolk vs white?

Many thanks for any insight you can offer. And congratulations again.