Today is Friday so that means

It is dose up day. Today Megan moved up to 5 peanuts two times a day. Tonight I mixed Megan's 1 tsp of peanut butter along with her 1 Tbsp of egg powder that she also has to take in order to maintain her egg desensitization. I used chocolate pudding and it smelled so good. Megan was not liking the peanut butter taste all that well. She asked me if I would make more peanut clusters instead. She told me to make sure that all of the peanuts were covered with chocolate because she doesn't like to see the peanuts, LOL. I guess I will be stocking up on Enjoy Life chocolate chips. We are only at 5 peanuts I can't imagine how this is going to go down when she has to do 12 peanuts twice a day, WOWZERS!!!

One peanut at a time

This week I bought Megan her FIRST JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER!!! She has the option of dosing with peanut butter that is carefully measured out. There are only a couple of brands that are nut free so I went with Peanut Butter & Co. One tsp of peanut butter = 5 peanuts. This Friday Megan will be moving up to FIVE PEANUTS!!! Right now Megan is enjoying her homemade peanut clusters that I made her. As she increases the amount of peanut we will probably have to stick with either peanut butter or peanut powder until she reaches maintenance. Just to recap, Megan's upcoming dose increases are as follows: 5 peanuts twice daily, 6 peanuts twice daily, 7 peanuts twice daily, 8 peanuts twice daily, 10 peanuts twice daily, 12 peanuts twice daily!!! In a bit over 6 weeks Megan will be done with her PEANUT DESENSITIZATION!!!!!!!

Megan is up to 4 peanuts!!!

Today Megan moved up to the 4 peanut dose. She is doing great and has had no issues with her dosings.

Three, 3, III.......

Today Megan is up to the three peanut dose for a total of six peanuts a day!!!

Add in some chocolate and you have...........

Megan has decided that she is not too fond of peanuts. I am having to resort to more creative means to get in her twice a day peanut dose. She tends to be a bit of a chipmunk storing the peanuts in her cheeks and then taking too long to chew them up. Today I decided to melt some Enjoy Life chocolate chips and make peanut clusters. I counted out the peanuts and put them on waxed paper and spooned the chocolate onto the peanuts. Who doesn't like chocolate and peanuts!!!! If for some reason my child is strange, LOL, and doesn't like the peanut/chocolate combo then I will move onto a mortar and pestle and grind up her peanut and add it into pudding or something else.

Back to PEANUT FLOUR

After consulting with Dr. Wasserman's office we have decided to go with peanut flour for now in order to get in our peanut doses twice a day. Time to stock up on more chocolate pudding, LOL. Megan currently uses chocolate pudding at night when she doses with her egg powder that she needs to maintain her desensitization for egg. We will need to purchase peanut flour from Byrdmill.com.

Peanut War

Megan has decided that she does not want to eat her peanuts. She hoards them in her mouth chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing. Instead of dosing with peanuts we will move to either peanut flour that can be mixed into pudding or dose with a nut free peanut butter. If Megan was nut safe she could dose with peanut M&M's but that is not an option.