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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- 2 kids
- Clean diet during pregnancy, virtually all organic and included nuts
- Fed organic foods until age 5; diet still mostly organic
- Few processed foods
- No screens (at all) until after age 2
- Pets in the house since birth, which is supposed to be protective.
- SAHP who provided lots of outdoor time when they were little, including playing in nature and digging in the dirt.
- Minimal antibiotics or other medications
- [b]Fed peanuts and nuts once it was recommended (age 3).[/b]

Both kids have food allergies.  One ate nuts and peanuts until age 7, when she had sudden anaphylaxis and almost died.  She now has severe anaphylactic allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as suspected celiac (we went gluten free before doing the testing).  The other has multiple, less severe food allergies.

Tell me, what did we do wrong?  How is this the parents' fault?[/quote]

And that especially for peanut and tree nut allergies, it is likely better for kids to be exposed young, and for even those kids who experience an allergic reaction to be treated with exposure to peanuts and tree nuts (starting in small controlled doses and building up) rather than in trying to create a peanut free cocoon.[/quote]

I think it's really important to note that once anaphylactic allergies are identified the "starting in small controlled doses and building up" needs to happen in carefully supervised medical conditions, and that until the treatment, which takes more than a year in a best case scenario with a kid with 1 allergen and no complications, and no waiting list for the first appointment, the kids lives outside of those medical interventions need to continue to be peanut free.

On the other thread, there are a lot of people who seem to taking the fact that OIT exists (which is wonderful) and twisting it around to say that parents who try to protect their kids from exposure are either bad parents because they should have just done the treatment already (even though, the treatment can take years, so young kids can be getting the treatment and also still need to be protected) or that since small exposures are the cure they should let their kid have small exposures on the playground (not how it works).  That's a really dangerous way of thinking.  [/quote]

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