Using Epinephrine for the First Time
Unfortunately, it’s easy to lose built-up tolerance to a food allergen. My son’s lost tolerance led to using epinephrine for the first time. Read More …
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Oral Peanut Dosing: Hopeful, scary, & harder than expected
When my son’s peanut patch trial ended, we transitioned to oral peanut dosing. We never expected it would be such a bumpy ride. Read More …
Disappointment with the DBV Peanut Patch
My son spent 3 years in a peanut patch study. Our hopes were high, but things stopped going smoothly. Read on to find out how! Read More …
To (Research) Study or Not to Study?
Our son has to decide whether to join a Food Allergy Clinical Research Study. There’s a lot to consider. Especially since he really hates needles. Read More …
Baked Egg versus Egg OIT: How do they stack up?
Allergists have been recommending baked egg (when tolerated) as an egg-allergy treatment for years. Egg OIT is an emerging technique to more rapidly introduce eggs. How do the two compare? Read More …
Peanut Allergy Patch – the only “Failure” is Bad Reporting
You may have seen disturbing headlines that the Peanut Patch has failed. This is simply not true. Nothing has failed. Read More …
An Egg Study
Allergists have long known that eating egg in its baked form (when an egg-allergic patient is able to do so) can reduce the severity of said allergy, or even speed the person in outgrowing it. For the past 18 months, my son has been in a study looking to measure that phenomenon! Read More …
Don’t Lick the Dough!
Zax had a minor allergic reaction last night. And it was my fault. We’ve been baking without egg for basically his whole life, but recently we were given the green light to start feeding him baked egg. On top of that, we’ve entered him into a Clinical Research Study where we’ve pledged to feed him Read More …
Inside a Food Allergy Study
21 lousy milligrams. That’s all the egg protein it took to induce an allergic reaction in my eldest son. It wasn’t anaphylactic at that level and was controlled with antihistamines, but I can’t help but shake the feeling that this is very allergic. 21 milligrams. That’s 3/1000ths of an egg, folks! Not many people know Read More …
Allergy Study
Zax and I participated in a food allergy research study last week! As studies go, it was quite simple. We gave some preliminary medical history over the phone so the doctor could decide if he wanted our blood. Once he decided that he did, we came in. From there, it was a simple questionnaire about Read More …