Would you trick your child?

[maeve]

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It's a good sign that he's realizing how much different things could be with egg in the mix.  That means he's getting there.   

I just want to say that the realization that things can be different with egg is more than half the battle.  Hopefully, you will not end up with a child like mine who has only known not eating egg and thinks the world is just fine that way.  She does not see the world that even having baked egg would open up to her.  She is still adamantly refusing to eat items with baked egg in them. 

So I may have to resort to the trickery.  The one problem:  We've never routinely given her baked goods, so she'll be suspicous if I start pushing muffins on a daily basis.

[nameless]

Now, as an adult --- I would need to be tricked   Psychosomatic affects are real, real to the person. It's hard not to help it sometimes and it's mostly out of your control until you can trick your head back into what is real.

Not saying you should trick him, I don't agree with tricking a child...but double blind and letting him know it's double blind...I don't see why your doctor won't try it that way. I think they do double-blind but someone in the office does know what is what (just not the parent, doctor, nurse in with the  person).

That being said --- I had an adult friend who did desensitization for peanuts. They put the peanut in pudding so you just swallowed, no chewing. Why? B/c apparently the allergen still "takes like hivey weirdness" She noted she could eat small amounts of peanut from the study, but it was a horrible horrible taste.

I think there is something to being able to still taste the allergen...and then reacting based off the taste even if you aren't really truly reacting. It's a body/memory thing, no?

Adrienne

[SpudBerry]

Do you think you might be able to do both?  Warn your child that you will be trying to get them to "blindly" try the food - that some time in the next day or two, or week - what ever the time - that you will be secretly slipping some of the allergen into their food.  Explain your reasons, and see what they say.

[Mookie86]

Do you think you might be able to do both?  Warn your child that you will be trying to get them to "blindly" try the food - that some time in the next day or two, or week - what ever the time - that you will be secretly slipping some of the allergen into their food.  Explain your reasons, and see what they say.

Excellent idea!  It maintains honesty, but still leaves the element of the unknown and unexpected.