Faith . Food Allergies . Family Life.
Have you ever wrestled with fear? This week I had to face a deep-seated fear as my peanut allergic child was going to eat 24 peanuts. Cue the terror. Noah has been working through peanut OIT for one and a half years and this week was the culmination of all of his hard work, as …
We started egg OIT in May of 2017, approximately one month after graduating from milk OIT. We began with diluted egg whites and the process went much like milk OIT. Noah was on a twice a day dosing protocol with updoses every 7 days. Egg dosing went smoothly with no reactions, but he did begin …
We started our OIT (oral immunotherapy) journey with milk. We chose milk because it seemed to be the most limiting and deadly allergen for my son at the time. He had had several anaphylactic reactions to milk in the past and when looking toward food freedom, we felt milk would open a lot of new …
Probably the most frequently asked question I get about OIT is, “Is it safe?” Sometimes the question is asked like this: “Doesn’t it scare you that he could react?” “What about the risk of an anaphylactic reaction?” “Are you scared he will have a reaction?” The question about safety is a great one to ask. …
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 …
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 …