Anxiety getting through the list of nuts

[Joni13]

My son (4) has a dairy, egg and peanut allergy. Peanut the most recently diagnosed. He seems to have quite delayed reactions (hours later) but affecting his airways (coughing, nose swelling) so we have EpiPens.
Strangely, he had blood tests for peanut and tree nuts, and all came back negative. His peanut skin prick test was negative too.
We are waiting 6 months to do a peanut challenge in hospital.
In the meantime, I need to go through the list of tree nuts, so we can be sure he is not allergic. So far we’ve ruled out cashew, and attempted slivers of almond once. For both we drove to the hospital and he had them in the park nearby. Because of his previous delays we had hours of watching and waiting.

I’m just finding it really hard to bring myself to get through the rest of the list. I know I should have really got through all the allergens when he was younger, but I was overwhelmed by his other allergies and trying to do the egg ladder. And time just seems to fly…

Should note I am pregnant and we are in the process of a stressful move.

Any advice on how to get through the others? I know my anxiety is quite bad, but I somehow need to push through and get this done.

Did they skin prick test for all the allergens you’re trying? I think if so, and they were negative, you don’t need to make the process so labour intensive. Try small amounts at home, three days apart. Keep an eye. Use your EpiPen if needed.

My daughter is allergic to peanut so I have lots of sympathy - it’s really hard relaxing. I think what makes it easier for me is that I also have allergies that I’ve had to learn to manage.

Good luck! You’ll be glad you got it out of the way before the baby comes if you manage it.

If the peanut skin test was negative and the response is very delayed, it may not have been peanut that set him off but something else he was exposed to at the same time?

@ApoodlecalledPenny they didn’t skin prick test all the tree nuts sadly, no.
But yeah I’m wondering whether driving to the hospital for each one is too much stress. We’re about a 20 min drive from the hospital, and an ambulance has come quickly in the past.
Yeah the peanut thing is weird - full story, he showed a mild sensitivity on a skin prick test as a baby, then passed the challenge in hospital, and then I struggled a bit to keep peanut in his diet because he wouldn’t eat peanut butter. I realised last year it had been a while since he’d had it, gave him a smear on toast, and he seemed to come up with a couple of hives round his mouth. Clinic did skin prick test, came back negative, told us to try the peanut challenge at home. My husband did it while I was at work, the only other thing he was eating was strawberries (high in histamine was my thought, but the allergy dr dismissed that). Finished challenge at 12/1ish, and by the time I got home at 4 had some small hives and was coughing. Gave him antihistamine and called an ambulance, then gave him the epipen at their request, and about half an hour later the hives spread massively (although no progression of airway symptoms). Went to hospital in ambulance but he was fine.
The blood test was a break down of all the different components/proteins in peanut, because they thought it was so unusual, but still negative. Dr seems stumped too!