We have seen so many miracles when it comes to our little Sweetheart and her food allergies, and this year we were able to see yet another. In 2017 we started OIT for her tree nut allergies.
She is allergic to walnut, pecan, pistachio, and cashew. Walnut and pecan are in the same nut family, so treating one of those allergies helps treat the other simultaneously. Cashew and pistachio are also in the same family, so this meant that if we did OIT for walnut and cashew, it should take care of pecan and pistachio.
So once a week we drove an hour each way to the allergist's office (they opened an office 1/2 hour closer to us, so we didn't have to drive 1-1/2 hours each way, hooray!). At the office, they gradually increased her dose of walnut and cashew until one day, she got to eat a whole cashew!
Eventually, she was also eating whole walnuts, and then she was eating a whole lot of both walnuts and cashews. After about six to seven months, she "graduated," and can now eat as many of these nuts as she wants!
After graduation, she went back into the office for a challenge to make sure that the work we had done also protected her from pistachio and cashews, and they did!
We are so grateful for this treatment and the freedom it has given our family. We really have been able to watch miracles in action!
For more info about Sweetheart's peanut OIT, here are some posts you can refer to:
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