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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an allergy parent, I’m kind of skeptical your child could have a “severe allergy” you are just discovering in ES.

Putting that aside, epinephrine, if given quickly, is extremely effective and not something you should be wary of using. My daughter sees Dr. Wood at Hopkins, failed a food challenge there, and I’ve seen epinephrine in action. A miracle drug. There is no downside to giving Epi even if you are unsure if the person “needs” it.[/quote]

I'm the French PP, and OP's experience with her child was ours as well. My son started to vomit spectacularly as a preschooler, and symptoms got progressively worse, and with a wider variety of nuts, to which he did not initially test positive. We need to retest frequently. Recently he had his first weekend away with his school club, and I was a basket of nerves the entire weekend, not knowing how he would deal with bringing his epipen everywhere and asking the right person for ingredients. There were no problems, thank goodness, but it's so stressful raising a child with an anaphylactic allergy.

[b]We are considering doing OIT, oral immuno therapy. [/b]Still have some research to do.

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OP here.  We have friends with a child who has a tree nut allergy who did OIT--they mentioned that not many providers do it in the DC area, but they have had good success finding an allergist who does it out West where they moved.

I guess it also depends on the type of allergy a kid has?  We raised OIT with our kid's allergist, and he said that she's not a good candidate, and that she's not likely to outgrow hers.[/quote]

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