With back to school upon us and so many people having asked us why we homeschool, I thought I’d offer a few answers. Truth is there is not one answer, in fact, there are more like 100 but the simplest one I can give you is… God has called us to this place and faithfully …
Author: Joy Petersen
What is OIT?
OIT stands for Oral ImmunoTherapy. Just like allergen immunotherapy for environmental allergies, which has been around since 1911, oral immunotherapy works using the same methodology. It takes a small dose of the allergen and introduces it to the body by mouth, not injections like traditional immunotherapy (allergy shots). Because the dose is so small, the …
Food Allergies: Our Story
At the time our story began, I had a sweet two-year-old little girl and a newborn baby boy we named Noah. Two beautiful and healthy children and my worries involved time-outs and sleep routines, your typical mom-life challenges. I had never known anyone with food allergies. We had no one in our immediate family with …