Dosing up again

Yesterday Megan dosed up to 175mg of peanut powder. I am so very thankful for each week that she gets behind her. Before we know it she will be moving up to eating peanuts!!!! Desensitization has changed Megan's life in so many ways. Not only does she not have to fear death from peanut but she will be adding one more food into her diet.

Today was dose up day!!!

Today Megan moved up to 100mg of peanut flour. She is doing great!!!!

Moving to peanut flour

This week Megan moved to peanut flour in capsules. She is now at 50mg of peanut flour. Next week she will increase to 100mg followed by 175mg, 250mg and then finally 500mg. After that point, we will move to eating PEANUTS!!!! Twice a day we open the premeasured peanut flour capsules and mix it with something yummy. Right now since it is a fairly small amount, Hershey's syrup works great. Megan continues to remain reaction free since starting. I was a bit concerned this week with how she would do because her allergies are flaring a bit, thanks to the wonderful pollen counts, but so far it does not seem to be affecting how she tolerates the peanut.

Peanut Flour

This week when Megan doses up she will get peanut flour capsules instead of the peanut liquid solution. The peanut flour can be mixed with foods such as pudding, applesauce, ect.. Every day that I dose her I am in disbelief that she is actually eating peanut. The amount may be small at this point but it is still PEANUT!!!

Today was dose up day again!!!

This week Megan will increase to 2ml of the 25mg/ml solution.

Doing great!!!

Megan is sailing along with her PEANUT DESENSITIZATION!! She is having no issues reaction wise and each day brings her a bit closer to our final goal, PEANUTS. Megan will go in again this Friday to dose up.

Dallas Allergy Immunology Graduating Inforamtion on Food Desensitization

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Oral Immunotherapy Graduating Classes


Due to safety reasons, we are not posting pictures or names of the individuals that have graduated from the food oral immunotherapy program. However, we would like to share the number of individuals that have successfully graduated from our program. If your child has a food allergy, and you are interested in speaking to the parent of a child that has completed our food oral immunotherapy program, please contact our office at 972-566-7788. We will be happy to connect you for more details on our program from a patient/parent point of view.

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2012:
Milk -
Egg -
Peanut -
Wheat -
Cashew -

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2011:
Milk – 13
Egg – 7
Peanut – 22
Wheat – 2
Cashew – 1

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2010:
Milk – 11
Egg – 4
Peanut – 30
Wheat – 1

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2009:
Milk – 10
Egg – 7
Peanut – 15

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2008:
Milk – 1
Egg - 4