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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to believe this one - I wirk in an emergency room and have seen this phenomenon before - a parent who believes with all their heart there is an allergy and the child is fine after multiple exposures.

I would tell the mom the whole incident.

Privately, I'd be wondering if she's muchausen by proxy.[/quote]

My childhood neighbor, "Jack"had all sorts of allergies according to his mother but would eat the things he was supposedly allergic to at our house & while being cared for by his grandparents all the time & never had a reaction. My mother freaked out the first time she found out he ate chocolate at our house because his mother told her it made his throat close up (as did nuts, fruit & several other things). His mother wasn't home (& this was before most people had cell phones) so my mom brought him to the ER.Jack's dad got home before his mother & heard the message on the answering machine from my mother explaining what had happened & met us there. The doctor talked to Jack's dad for a while then Jack's dad told us he was fine & we went home.Later, Jack's dad told my parents that the ER had seen Jack there before when his grandparents brought him in under similar circumstances &  had done all kinds of tests & determined he had no signs of any allergic reactions whatsoever. Apparently the grandparents had told Jack's mother all this but she let his dad (& everyone else) continue to believe he had all these allergies.

My DH is an ER physician &, unfortunately, cases like Jack's are more common than one might think. These cases are not only sad because they are indicative of muchausen-by-proxy, a serious mental disorder that often results in a parent causing a child to be seriously ill, sometimes even resulting in the child's death, but also because it makes it all the more difficult for those who actually do have life-threatening allergies to be taken seriously.

It's also possible that the child in OP's post was diagnosed with a peanut allergy but, unbeknownst to his mother, has since outgrown it. In any case, I'm inclined to think OP is telling the truth about what happened.[/quote]

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