OIT Update - Celebrating the Milestones after 10 Months!

Wow! What a difference 10 months can make!

Tori is bite proof to cashews and pistachios.  She passed food challenges and is not allergic to any other nuts.

Faith is bite proof to cashews and pistachios, however she did not pass the walnut challenge, and will begin round two of OIT in April.

Hunter is three doses away from becoming bite proof to cashews and pistachios and we are hoping like Tori, he passes oral challenges for the other nuts and will be on maintenance.

Imagining a future that my kids no longer need to miss out on celebrations, summer camps and other outings seems almost too good to be true....and yet it is true!  They are talking about what it will be like to go on vacation and  be able to eat at a restaurant!  While Tori is already in this place, Faith and  Hunter are not quite there yet.

I will say overall this process has been relatively uneventful.  We are blessed to say that there have been no serious reactions.  Two challenges that we have dealt with:  1) taking time off school to get to appointments and 2) getting passed the psychological challenge of ingesting nuts after years of strict avoidance.

 We do continue to work through each issue, and have found many ways to camouflage the taste and texture of the nuts. I don't believe anyone of us would trade the victory and the future filled with freedom for the inconvenience and challenges we have encountered. If asked, we would highly recommend OIT to anyone living devastation of food allergies.

For more information as well as contact information for Dr Chad Mayer, please see his website at www.oitcenter.com.