On April 12,2011 my son Alexander, who is deathlyallergicto peanuts, was officiallydeclared "DESENSITIZED".
The term sounds like a condition out of a science fiction movie void of feeling and sterile.
It actually befits our situation as Alexander experienced No Reactionto the ingestion of peanutsduring the entire OIT process.
So you may ask "how did we achieve this?" Dr. Wasserman and his staff, especially Angela Galucci,P.A. are the medical heroes making history with their Oral Immunotherapy program.
Our part was being a willing and dedicated participant in the Dallas Allergy Immunology oral immunotherapy program (OIT) for peanuts.
It is important to note that Dr.Wasserman also offers OIT for milk, wheat and egg allergies.
It is surprising the talk to other patients and discover that many peanut allergic people are also allergic to one or more of these other food allergies.
Alexander was not only brave to agreeto ingest peanutsto which he is deathly allergic
(you should read his testing results in a previous post)
but he followed all the rules and requirements with little complaint other than cringing at the mere thought of having to take his distasteful dose.
Yes he also mastered the art of delay when it came to taking his dose. I've heard many funny stories from other patients whose children have taken the slow-playing of dose taking to a new creative high.
As for our journey since April 12th with Alexander's " maintenance dose" of peanuts, I will write a future post on his progress.
I want to thank Dr.Wasserman and his staff for all of their encouragement, candor and support.
This program is a real breakthrough for everyone who suffers from the dreaded peanut allergy.
I implore you to investigate this program for yourself.
Read past posts and comments and do your own research.
Helpful links are on the right side of my blog.
As an expression of our joy and excitement for becoming "desensitized to peanuts" we want to express our prayerful thanks to God our Father for his many blessings
and
as we say in Texas "yeehaw".
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