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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not want to carry EpiPen around? Do the OIT. Seriously, it's one of the reasons we did. The main reason was we hated using the EpiPen on our kid (at least twice).

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For what it's worth you are still supposed to carry around the epi-pen and the OIT does not mean they can just freely eat peanuts.  It makes them "bite proof" and it's supposed to deal with accidental trace exposure.  The allergist will tell you that.  We did OIT.[/quote]

Not for our case. My daughter passed the peanut food challenge (8 grams) after completing the OIT. I don't remember about whether to continue carrying the EpiPen, but she was told by the allergist to freely eat peanut. She's been on maintenance dose ever since.

Before OIT, she went to the ER twice due to anaphylaxis.[/quote]\

Wow, that's great! Does she eat peanuts then (PBJs etc)? I didn't realize OIT could lead to being able to freely eat it. [/quote]

I am not this poster but the poster previously whose kid did OIT but wouldn't keep up with maintenance.  Our allergist gave the option to keep updosing to very large amounts of peanut so the person could basically freely eat peanuts.  But you have to keep going with OIT longer and your kid has to obviously like peanuts and the maintenance dose is higher.  That was my experience at least.  The dose my daughter got to was one peanut a day and we were told to keep carrying an epi-pen.  Great that it worked out for this kid and family![/quote]

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