Click here for part 1 of Zax’s story At 3 ½, Zax was getting ready to go to preschool, and I decided it was time for us to know more.  Specifically, I wanted to know two things: Could he tolerate egg in baked items? (Many egg-allergic people can.) Was he really allergic to peanut?   Read More …

Zax came into our lives in October of 2008.  He was a wonderful baby and, apart from a bit of eczema, was pretty healthy.  Because of my own allergies (and particularly having heard the story of my own first experience with egg) we were very cautious about introducing new foods to him.  We introduced one Read More …

Click here for part 1 of my allergic history, birth to age 4. Click here for part 2 of my allergic history, up to age 6. So by age 6, I’d actually been tested for allergies, and my allergies and asthma were coming under better control. Time went on, and we muddled through.  At some Read More …

Click here for part 1 of my allergic history. By this point, I had made it to 4 years old, and my allergies to tree nuts solidified. The next few years of my life were a whirlwind learning adventure for my family.  They trained me to ask whether food had nuts in it, and I Read More …

When I was 11 months old, I had an anaphylactic reaction to egg. It happened on the day my mother gave me egg for the first time.  She fed me part of a scrambled egg, but then noticed that I wasn’t right.  I was fussy.  I was breaking out in hives.  She called my pediatrician, Read More …