peanut allergy testing

[Macabre]

Oh wow!!  Wonderful!

[maeve]

Congrats. That's great news.

[MaryM]

Congratulations!!!!!

[Janelle205]

Yay!  So happy for you.

[hedgehog]

Oh, I am so happy for you!   

[LinksEtc]

Congratulations!  I'm very happy for you & your dd.

[YouKnowWho]

Tell J that it took DS1 years to building up to liking peanuts.  He is still ehh, on peanuts as a whole product.  But the transition to peanut butter was eased because sunbutter was so similar.  I think I mixed the two in cup and just kept adding more peanut butter. 

M&M's are a great place to start though.  I am really happy for you guys!  Now I need to pick J's brain on how she made those snowman cookies

[Mfamom]

congrats!!!  DS working up mentally for our challenge.  I canceled the first appt because he didn't want to do it.  I told him to just let me know when he's ready!

Great News here!!

[hezzier]

Very exciting!

[SilverLining]

So happy for her.   

[Jmarc]

well she had her first kit kat bar ever last night....no issues...and she truly enjoyed it...( they are a may contain here) but still first step yay!!!
i dont think she will ever like the taste of peanut butter...as she dint even like the sun butter or the soy nut butter....but still it opens up a whole brand new world for her....

ykw... the snowman cookies are....sugar cookies...jus make a batch if them.. and use a tad bit of cookie ice-ing or frosting to the underside of the marshmellow to get it to stick to the cookie and then decorate it... its thats easy...

[booandbrimom]

Oh that's so great! I came here in the hopes of seeing good news this morning and it's so great to have TWO board members celebrating!

Way to go, J! Just don't be surprised if it takes you months (and maybe years) to completely get ride of all your avoidance behaviors.

[SilverLining]

Jmarc, sorry if you already answered this, but is she supposed to start with just "may contains" or is she also allowed actual peanut/pb stuff?

Speaking as someone who developed this allergy after fully enjoying so many Peanutty things....if I could have just one thing....it would be a dry roasted peanut in the shell.  I guess if she's only supposed to have a little weekly, that would be a waste to buy a whole bag.  But, if she does try an actual whole peanut, please let me know what she thinks of it.

[joanna5]

That's wonderful news!  Congratulations!

[Jmarc]

she is to start off slow, may contains(traces) each week with adding one peanuty thing to the mix once a week. very slow indeed...which is ok by me....

i kept saying to her.. you can try this and this and have this..and lo and behold they were all thinga that are safe..lol....cant seem to get out of the safe mode..omg...

she still doents like the tatse of peanut butter or the smell of it...i think that is going to take some time and getting use to....she did enjoy a kit kat bar ( main contain) the other night and was in heaven and had no issues....yay!!