my son had a reaction to his first exposure to peanut, he also has a few other allergies,both food and envrionmental.
Its a myth that each reaction gets worse each time.
the severity of each allergic reaction depends on a range of factors.
- amount ingested.
- health at time of accidental ingestion.viral infections, etc
3.stress
4 amount of booze consumed!
5,out of control asthma.
6 other allergens ongoing, severe hay fever or tree pollen allergie for instance
7 recent previous reaction.( body on hyper alert)
most people will have a mild skin contact reaction.
and some show dramatic reactions , but vast majority are resolved with anti histamine.
a study some years ago showed that the quicker you get anti histamine in a child at first signs of reaction the better.
its perfectly possible to have mild reactions for years, and consider yourself as having a mild allergy, and then , out of the blue have a severe reaction.
An immunologist ( if you can find one) is the most qualifed person to state mild allergy or not.
outgrowing is about 20% of nut allergic children. norm about 7 yrs.
other food allergies, like milk are outgrown by 5 ish, or younger.
but allergies , esp those people with multiple allergies seem to take longer to outgrow if they are following that path.
most children with allergies are following a allergic march, which means that during the early years, the food allergies are discovered, and ezcema and asthma are hard to control.
skin sometimes improve past 6-7 ish ( for some) but other allergies change or develop as time goes by.
children with envrionmental allergies may discover their food is cross reacting with these allergies.
for instance , tree pollen allergy might have a link to fruit allergies.
or similar food proteins may cause a problem, peanuts and tree nuts, although different food groups, or like my son , peanut may also lead to a bean allergy.
peanut and egg allergy seem to frequently go hand in hand.
There does seem to be exceptions to all the above!
and that may be because of the sudden surprise of the huge rise in food allergies in children, and quite frankly the docs cant keep up with it all.
hope this is helpful.