My shrink told me we didn’t even need to feed my son peanut butter, but that one or two small applications of PB to the chest during infancy would reduce the risk of allergy by a massive factor. His mom thought it sounded weird as fuck, but she asked his pediatrician, and then did it. He ain’t allergic to peanuts.
In a way, yeah. You’d hope that, more than anything, it’d just be a topical reaction on their skin.
My youngest had real bad skin as a baby that cleared up when we stopped feeding our oldest peanut butter. We had him get a scratch test and it showed positive for peanuts back in like Jan 2020.
He was supposed to be getting put into an exposure therapy trial then, but due to COVID we were never able to book a “peanut challenge” exposure test.
Fast forward to about two years ago when they say they have an opening almost a year out for the peanut challenge.
So early this year we finally take it, and he passed. No therapy at all.
We’d been avoiding peanuts like the plague for 5 years. Getting epipens, making sure they are stocked and in-date at preschool. Always carrying one with us. Stressing out about whether or not we left it in the car too long. Never once using it. We were very diligent about peanuts.
The kid was never allergic. He had false positive tests on the scratch test. In fact, the blood tests always showed no reaction. He just had bad skin, or something.
But now he says he doesn’t “like” peanut butter and is always still making sure he gets sunbutter…but I know him well enough to know he’s actually scared of peanuts and too proud to admit it.
My shrink told me we didn’t even need to feed my son peanut butter, but that one or two small applications of PB to the chest during infancy would reduce the risk of allergy by a massive factor. His mom thought it sounded weird as fuck, but she asked his pediatrician, and then did it. He ain’t allergic to peanuts.
it’s pseudo-diagnostic, you don’t know whether he would have been allergic to peanuts if you didn’t rub it on his chest
In a way, yeah. You’d hope that, more than anything, it’d just be a topical reaction on their skin.
My youngest had real bad skin as a baby that cleared up when we stopped feeding our oldest peanut butter. We had him get a scratch test and it showed positive for peanuts back in like Jan 2020.
He was supposed to be getting put into an exposure therapy trial then, but due to COVID we were never able to book a “peanut challenge” exposure test.
Fast forward to about two years ago when they say they have an opening almost a year out for the peanut challenge.
So early this year we finally take it, and he passed. No therapy at all.
We’d been avoiding peanuts like the plague for 5 years. Getting epipens, making sure they are stocked and in-date at preschool. Always carrying one with us. Stressing out about whether or not we left it in the car too long. Never once using it. We were very diligent about peanuts.
The kid was never allergic. He had false positive tests on the scratch test. In fact, the blood tests always showed no reaction. He just had bad skin, or something.
But now he says he doesn’t “like” peanut butter and is always still making sure he gets sunbutter…but I know him well enough to know he’s actually scared of peanuts and too proud to admit it.