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[quote=Anonymous]Food allergy mom here.  I definitely think that kids seem to be more diagnosed with allergies, but a fair amt will outgrow those allergies in their childhood, so it's not a lifelong issue for them (lucky), so perhaps we had friends who'd outgrown their allergies prior to us knowing them.

I also think that some of the testing could contribute to a rise in diagnoses. I hesitate to type this, because I fear it could make people more dismissive of allergies or make them tend to not believe in them.  With my own child (not a single food allergy at all in our families' histories- it came out of nowhere), he tested positive via skin test to pecans and peanuts.  We were told to avoid all treenuts, not just pecans, which we did, and I would always say he had TN/PN allergies.  When he was retested, he showed nothing for pecans or any other treenut (still positive to peanuts).  The allergist said it was possible he either was never allergic to pecans or that it was a mild allergy and he outgrew them, but for us to still avoid treenuts due to the correlation with tn and pn allergies.  I used to still say he was allergic to tn, even though the test didn't support that, but now I say we avoid tn and hope that people still respect that.  I know he's definitely allergic to peanuts b/c he's had both ingestion and contact reactions to them, unfortunately.  [/quote]

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