Happy Dance!!!!!!

Happy Dance, Happy Dance, I am doing the Happy Dance!!!!!!!! Tomorrow Megan moves up to the 12 peanut dose. After this week she is DONE with her peanut desensitization!!!!!!!!!! Next week she will go back for a 24 peanut challenge and then on to maintenance. I am still in awe that she is eating peanuts. In one year we have accomplished making Megan's life safer, first with egg and now peanut.

Ugh, Ugh, Ugh

You either like/love peanuts or you dislike/hate peanuts. Megan would fall into the second category, LOL. I hope that over time she acquires a tolerance for the taste. Guessing she will never really like/love them but one could only hope. My arms are getting a work out twice a day from grinding her peanuts down, LOL.

10 peanuts!!!

Yesterday Megan dosed up to ten peanuts, amazing isn't it!!! Next week she will move to 12 peanuts and then the following week she will do an in office challenge of 24 peanuts. We are on the homestretch. It is so hard to believe that in a year Megan has completed two desensitizations making her life not so scary anymore.

Tomorrow is 10 peanuts!!!!!

I crushed Megan's TEN peanuts with a mortal and pestle until they were pretty much peanut butter consistency. I have started adding either honey or Enjoy Life chocolate chips and Megan seems to tolerate the "nasty peanuts" as she calls them, LOL. It is hard to believe but also so amazing that in two weeks Megan will have completed PEANUT DESENSITIZATION!!!!!!! The rest of the family has enjoyed having real peanut butter again, cheese and peanut butter crackers, candy with chocolate, ect..

MEGAN HATES PEANUT!!!!!!

Megan HATES peanut and it is sometimes very challenging to get her to take her twice daily dose. I have tried every way to making it more palatable but now that she is up to 8 peanuts per dosing it is getting more and more challenging. To condense her peanuts I have found that using a mortar and pestle and grinding it to peanut butter consistency works the best. Add a couple of chocolate chips and pray, LOL. How ironic that the foods that Megan is allergic to she hates and has aversions too. The body is truly amazing how it tries to protect a person from known allergies. Megan finished egg desensitization and HATES egg too. It is wonderful that we can use egg white powder mixed in pudding to get in her daily dose of egg.

A link to Dallas Allergy Immunology Newsletter

Dr. Wasserman's office puts out a newsletter and the current newsletter lists OIT information. http://app.cooleremail.com/v.pl?12be719003de7a55c526520b6b1472fa159e9b634eddb5c7

Eight PEANUTS

Today Megan dosed up to 8 peanuts!!! That is a whooping total of 16 peanuts a day, WOW!!