Peanut Allergy Moms

uneekstylez · April 2013

How old was your LO when they were diagnosed w/the allergy? How bad was the first reaction? And did you get a blood test done? And if your kid is 6yrs or older, did you repeat the blood just to make sure even though the 1st blood test said it would be a lifelong allergy? Just wondering because I heard that about 20% of kids with peanut allergies grow out of it by 6 or 7 years.

EmR22 · April 2013

My daughter was one when she was diagnosed. They tested her for allergies at 3 months because she had excema and the two tend to go hand in hand. She tested allergic for eggs and at one she had additional testing and we discovered peanut and tree nut allergies. She has yet to actually eat either because we discovered so young so we don't know exactly what reaction she will have. We have had skin tests as well as blood testing because they blood tests can tell more accurately tell how allergic they are. We had her re-tested at 3 and her reaction on the skin was far worse then they advised us to re-test right before school started since school with food allergies is a tricky thing. We tested her the summer before she started school and it appears that her allergies are getting worse. You are right about the percentages that outgrow, in our case it doesn't seem likely. We have been advised to come back in another 3-4 years for re-testing. There are a lot of new therapies for people with peanut allergies and she hopes in a few years they will have more testing/accurate results to back them up. Plus it's hard to put a 5 year old thru that when they can't always express what symptoms they are feeling.

fancynewbeesly · April 2013

My daughter was allergy tested at about 18 months for peanuts and sesame seeds. She never had eaten peanuts, but one day I had peanut butter and I kissed her--and she developed a single hive on her forehead.

She gets retested for her allergies every 3-4 months (eggs, peanuts, and sesame). She will be going back in about 2 weeks to see if there is any change.

jrrs · April 2013

We found out late. He was officially diagnosed at 4. We avoided peanuts until after age 2. By then, he refused to go near any nut, especially peanuts. At three he had a contact ana reaction to pecans. A month later, another ana reaction to a peanut butter cookie. Now i believe he had probably ingested a peanut along the way sometime before that. And it would have been hard to know because he has a very severe grass allergy and some hellacious other seasonal allergies. I was also pregnant at the time all this went down, had a preemie with rsv. Once all that was sorted out we got my oldest into the allergist and his skin reacted to peanuts, but not pecans. He flipped out so much over the skin test though we've never been able to follow up with a blood test. Its okay. We know. And we know he wont be outgrowing it. We'll skin test again in a few years and probably combine that with a blood test just to get a level but his allergist said he was reactive enough not to have any doubts in the diagnosis. He was a 4 on a scale if 1 to 4. And his allergist has been my allergist for over 10 years, so I cant doubt her advice.

echowysp2 · May 2013

He was 2 at his 2 year check up. He got rashes when he ate peanut butter. Nothing too bad, but he tested positive on both skin test and blood test. We will test him when he's older to see if he's still allergic. Our doc said there's a chance he outgrows it, but I'm not holding my breath.

We'll test dd eventually to see if she's allergic or not, but until then, it doesn't matter since we keep her away from nuts anyway.

Twirple · May 2013

We gave DS peanut butter at age one. He got hives everywhere the peanuts butter touched. We immediately gave him benedryl and then took him to the pediatrician, who gave us a prescription for an epi-pen. We know he is allergic to peanuts, but he has never reacted to anything else. He is now two, and at the advice of our pediatrician, we have not taken into an allergist for testing. We will avoid peanuts and wait a few more years, then test.

macchiatto · May 2013

He was 15m when he was Dx'ed. He had been seeing an allergist since 10m, but the testing at 15m was actually done as part of a BFing and Child Health study my twins and I participated in. He tested positive for peanuts and eggs on the skin test so they followed up with a blood test. (That's also how we discovered my other son's egg allergy so it's a good thing we did the study!) On the blood test, he was positive for peanuts (moderate) and negative for eggs (which we confirmed with a food challenge).

At follow-up when he was 2.5 though, he tested negative on the skin test for peanuts. We ended up deciding to go ahead and do a food challenge at the allergist's and he passed it and has eaten PB ever since. He had most of the risk factors for NOT outgrowing it so that was a very pleasant surprise. (But then, a year and a half later, we learned the hard way that his twin had developed a serious tree nut allergy, so we're back in the land of epi-pens.)

LBF DPT · June 2013

I pushed for an allergist referral at my DS's 9 month appointment bc he had had some reactions to rice cereal and sweet potato as well as "baby cheetos". All digestive except for baby cheetos. We thought he was allergic to those and wanted to know how badly. We had been dealing with eczema since day one.

Turns out none of those he is allergic to via scratch test, but he is severely allergic to peanuts, mildly to cats and fish.

from what I understand peanut allergy is not one you can outgrow.

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