Allergy update

Today I took my sweet boy for a four year old follow up on his food allergies. I went in today hoping that maybe he had outgrown his peanut allergy. He has no desire to eat a peanut or peanut butter, but still. He was hesitant about going to the doctor, he said he didn't want shots. (We still haven't gone for our 4 year old shots!) But we went and Dr. Zambrano was nice as always and Max cooperated. Then the nurse came in withe the prick sticks, yikes! I let Max sit straddled on my lap as they did a series of pricks on his back of different tree nuts. It was terrible, he hated it. I felt horrible, but I did my best to keep him still and calm. I failed! When they were done we waited to see the reaction. At first I didn't see much of a reaction, but then the bumps started to show. A few test spots had satellite bumps too. He was really uncomfortable and itchy. His reactions were so bad he was breaking out in hives on his stomach and arms. I asked for help and if we could give him an antihistamine sooner. They explained that it need to run its course for NINE more minutes. Longest 9 minutes ever!!

Long story short, they measured their readings and it showed that he is severely allergic to peanuts, pecans, pistachios and cashews. He was not allergic to almonds, hazelnuts or walnuts. Dr. Zambrano said to avoid nuts if at all possible due to cross contamination. Having a child with severe food allergies is hard, but I know we will get through it. The rest of the day he picked what he wanted to do and was much happier. On the menu: the park, chick fil a and playing with his friends. :)

And he got a pretty cool toy harmonica for enduring the prick test.