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Has anyone had a child with a nut allergy whose symptoms stayed at the same level of severity over time? Or does it always get worse?

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mollymawk · 07/07/2009 20:23

I have DS1 (age nearly 6) and DS2 (age 4) who both have nut allergies. I am feeling anxious this evening as DS2 went to a party and seems to have accidentally eaten something peanutty and was sick a couple of times and had a rash. No other ill effects.

He has had reactions 3 times before ? once as a baby when he got a rash when I touched his face with some nut dust on my hands (thus leading to first suspicion of nut allergy), then once about 18 mths ago when he ate a pizza and was sick and had a rash (still not sure what was on that!) and then a few months ago at pre-school when he got a rash from touching some bird feed that had peanut dust in it.

So now I am wondering has anyone had a child with a nut allergy of this kind of level of severity (so far he has never had any breathing problems, swelling etc) that just stayed at this level? I am just worrying about all those things I read that it gets worse every time. I fully understand that it might get worse in future but I am just hoping it might not be inevitable!

(I am just going to go off and eat now so won?t answer straightaway but I am hoping some people will have some experiences they can tell me about).

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tinytalker · 09/07/2009 20:23

If anyone is interested in mini medicine bottles with syringes to decant piriton into for taking out and about. Then I have some in stock. PM me.
My dd carries one in her Epipen pouch (shes 11yrs) with a measured dose and she will just swig it in an emergency. You never know when it might be needed. She was in a ballet lesson a couple of months ago and there was no room at the barre, her teacher asked her to do her exercises holding the radiator (it was off) it must have been very dusty and she must have touched her face because within 10mins she was having an asthma attack and her eyes puffed up!!

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