Living with Food Allergies, 2013 and on

[SilverLining]

My guess is, that would not be food allergy related illness, but more likely seasonal allergies.  So, it would differ monthly based on what pollen and how much is in the air.

Food allergies peak in December.  (I'm half joking.  They are there all the time, but with holiday celebrations, people eat more foods prepared by others in December....so I'm just blaming December.)

[twinturbo]

hey! thought some of you might be interested in this:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/224527/us-allergy-sufferers/

the rate of people with allergies seems to rise, why is that?

Longer pollen seasons and proliferation of mites. Globally populations differ in presentation and allergens yet still rising.

[CMdeux]

I can only post this here, in a great deal of bemused-- dazed, really-- wonder:

Today one of our CHICKENS laid an EGG in our yard.  And I was pleased.  And I took it into my house.  I felt no fear.  Only happiness that our chickens are pleased and that spring is apparently nearly upon us.


:slack-jawed:

[LinksEtc]

 

[CMdeux]

I jinxed us.






As I'm getting a spoonful of sunbutter for breakfast, DD quips--

You know, I can't really stand the thought of EATING sunbutter since it started smelling like peanut butter to me.

[spoiler][/spoiler]


So I told her to roll up her sleeve.

I smeared some on her arm. 




She turned a bit pink where it was sitting on her.  Hard to say if it was just irritation or not... but the sniffling that she's been doing isn't... and she said that after I wiped it off, her face felt itchy.  (Though she agreed that this was likely to be psychosomatic.)

make-it-go-away-make-it-go-away-make-it-go-away

[booandbrimom]

We're off to see the Wizard.

Cross your fingers for us, folks. We're doing the big one - milk - this morning. Gotta go wrench the kid out of bed and buy actual ice cream.

[becca]

 

  Boo!

[CMdeux]

WOWSERS.


   

[rebekahc]

 

[momma2boys]

Good luck!

[booandbrimom]

We are already back.

He ate about a quarter cup of ice cream in the end with no reaction. We went to Chipotle for lunch and he had sour cream. Hated it, but no reaction.

The only allergens we have left to test are hazelnut and lentil, but the doctor really believes neither will be a problem. She looked at him today and say "So...just peanut, huh?"

I don't even know how to start to feel about all this. I'm so grateful.

[momma2boys]

That's really great! 

[CMdeux]

    






HURRAY!!!!

[booandbrimom]

CM, of everyone, you've been through these years with us. I wish and hope everyone gets this experience some day. I asked him today how it felt to discard five allergens all in one year and he replied "surreal."

We may go out for a birthday dinner at an actual restaurant where he can choose almost anything off the menu. What a concept.

I did ask the doctor the nagging question: if he passed with his RAST still so high, would he have passed years ago too? She shrugged and said it happens when it happens and we should just be happy we're finally done with it.

[GingerPye]

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!  Surreal is right.

there's hope for us. 
CONGRATS!!!!!!!