Can anyone offer a glimmer of hope re outgrowing multiple serious allergies?

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DS2 is severly allergic to CMP, soya, peas, pulses, eggs, sesame & mustard.

I also discovered on Monday that he's allergic to nuts. I kissed him about 5 minutes after I'd eaten cashews. His whole face swelled up and he was covered in hives .

I'm a bit worried as I think now he may need an epipen... Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has experience of outgrowing allergies when they're so varied and serious?

I should have mentioned, he's 2.8.

i think, he would be considered a suitable candidate for a epi pen without the nut allergy, so its going to be something you may have to live with anyway.

and yes, with a child of 2, you have plenty of hope for outgrowing, my son has multiple allergies and has grown out of some of them.
however, some of his allergies are life long.

so, i think it best to be very happy when you get a outgrown allergy, but to not pin all your hopes on totally outgrowing.....iyswim

not the same as ds never needed epipen but he had serious reflux, failure to thrive, malabsorption, enteropathy and diagnsed coeliac disease (turned out to be wrong). He could not eat gluten, dairy or soya and was a little thing who was totally uninterested in food and seriously ill frequently. He grew out of all of it and is now a pretty robust 13 year old who polished off a pizza\and ice cream for dinner!

Hi, don't know about multiple allergies, my son only has one but at aged 18mths his RAST test result was 5 & at aged 4 its now only 2 so he is unlikely to have a severe reaction.

just to add, it's terribly hard when they cant eat normally and I really feel for you.

I had (have?) pollen allergy that would flare up in rather impressive bouts of urticaria if I so much as passed in the neighbourhood of a pine tree.

This decreased slowly over time and now I don't have any sensitivity to pine pollens at all.

So "outgrowing" allergies is possible.

I do get new allergies from time to time, like a certain antibiotic I tried for the first time, but this is rare.

Thanks for all your replies! Baby barrister - I'll check out the list of consultants as we only see a paed at the moment. I've been trying for 2 years to be referred to one, with no luck .

DS has outgrown allergies to beans, soya, chickpeas and sesame.

he is still allergic to CMP, eggs and lentils, but the lentil skin prick test wheal was so small i couldn't see it, but they said they could feel it under the skin, so I'm hopeful he'll outgrow that.

They were also hopeful of him outgrowing the egg allergy as he can tolerate egg pasta.

he is still very allergic to CMP though .

he is 3.5

My son grew out of a severe milk allergy,thet he had since 5 weeks old. An excellent consultant spent the year before he was due to start school getting him used to milk. Started with a pinprick amount on his skin, then months later progressed to a drop on his face, then lip and eventually a tiny amount on his tongue. This was all very closely monitored in hospital for a day each time. He started school without the allergy!
However he did develop asthma/hayfever etc but at least he can eat properly!
There is hope! Good luck.

DS outgrew peanut but not treenut or seseme seeds

That's hugely encouraging - thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences .

awishes that sounds fantastic! HOw did you hear about that consultant? What age did they start with the desensitisation to milk?

Bit late in posting this not been on this site in ages. DD had severe food allergies. Had adrenaline from baby. Was allergic to milk, eggs, wheat, pulses tomatoes, citrus fruits. Now 4.8 yrs and only egg left and not as severe. no epipen. Was a nightmare and seemed to be all I thought about or worried about I should say but.. hang on in there...they can outgrow them!

mine's outgrown about 70% of his allergies - he's now on permanent antihistamine and we do use the epipens but diet had become a lot easier. Push for consultant - where are you based?

My DS has dairy egg gluten wheat rye sesame allergies and we always carry piriton & epipens.

We are really hoping he does outgrow them, he hasn't yet though but he's only 3.5!

I'd love him to be able to have bread, biscuits and pasta with other children!!

Funnily enough I was talking about allergies with a doctor friend of mine yesterday. She said that the latest thinking is that allergens can be reintroduced in minute quantities under controlled conditions until the child is no longer allergic. She told me that this has worked with peanut allergies. I would suggest that you talk to a specialist about this.

DD is only allergic to cats, but it must be a nightmare to have to check everything your son eats.

DS2 was allergic to eggs and dairy when he was younger, but had outgrown both by the time he turned 6.

We had a fantastic paediatrician and dietician who advised us on slowly re-introducing them.

I have a friend who's allergic to loads of things (nuts, fruit, paprika amongst them) and in the last 2 years she's been able to tolerate quite a few foods she couldn't before. She's 33 so hopefully this illustrates that allergies can change at any time.

Ds1, 7, was allergic to milk and eggs as well as having reflux as a baby and pretty bad ecema. He is now food allergy free and only has mild spring time skin problems. Even if your ds doesn't grow out of all of them its likely the list will reduce.Parties as they get older are hard, it made me proud and broke my heart hearing him asking the host if food contained eggs. It is such a relief that we no longer need to think about it and we were fortunate that it was never more than an inconvienience.

My ds2 had fairly serious multiple allergies (dairy, eggs, wheat, soya & nuts) and has finally outgrown all but nuts in the last 3 months and he is just turned 6.

DS1 was severely allergic to egg, milk and nuts at 1.8 years old. He was also allergic to soya and was intolerant to tomatoes.

He is now 10. He is still allergic to milk (although I think less so, allergy nurse appears to think I am in denial), the wheals on the egg allergy are much smaller (egg white used to be bigger than the milk one but now it's quite small) he has had negative skin prick tests for nuts (but not a challenge) and he can now have soya and tomatoes with no problems. For some reason he has never had a skin prick test for soya - the original allergy test was done by a blood test.

The time he had the negative skin prick tests for nuts, we asked for them to be done and the paediatrician was reluctant saying "No one ever grows out of a nut allegy, they only get worse." Twenty minutes later she had to eat her words!

I have been told that if they haven't grown out of a milk allergy by the age of 7 then they are stuck with it. But you never know...

On Tuesday, my DS had negative skin prick tests for tomatoes, onions, celery and peas. I am so happy! We have been eating tomatoes all week with no problems and will try onions next. This is life-changing stuff!!

Okay, so we are still avoiding milk, eggs, nuts, mustard, bananas and a few other things, but now I have ^hope" that allergies really can be outgrown.

Just coming back to this after quite some time. It's really great to hear the stories where people have seen their DC outgrow their allergies. Here's hoping I can one day post to offer hope to someone else .

Anyway...I'm not getting anywhere with the NHS, so am going to use private healthcare. Can anyone recommend a consultant in Scotland?

I know this us a very old post but how long did it for your DC to recover from the 'failure to thrive' diagnosis?