I have been thinking about something. I originally thought the food allergy inheritance is from my husbands side of the family. There is definately a brother who had asthma in infancy, severe eczema/psoriasis to this day. Husband's mother reports milk allergy in her childhood and needed goat's milk(long time ago). She also vaguely reports, "all kinds if food allergies" in the family, but not specifics, and sort of in a way that lets me know I am overprotective of dd's PN/TN/egg/sesame allergies.
My question is, it seems there is noone troubled by allergies in adulthood. Other than the brother who does still deal with skin problems. Never any history of anaphylaxis, and not nut allergies, though(or PN ones). Is there more likelihood of outgrowing the allergies, if past family has. I suppose there is, but does anyone know of this happening? Oh, and our niece had total body hives from chocolate once, and strictly avoided. Now, at 11 had a bite sort of by accident(long, but scary story worth a seperate post sometime), and seemed fine. Of course, it may not have been enough after such long avoidance.
Just wondering what the thoughts are out there. Thanks, becca
I found out only just this past weekend that my husband's maternal Aunt is intollerant to eggs, her son (my husband's cousin) is allergic to eggs and had an anaphylactic episode when he was a baby, my husband's cousins son is allergic to eggs (his face swelled up when he ate them). Of course I mention EpiPen to these people and they say no one needs it, they'll just avoid eggs. Once again, the view that I'm overreacting to peanut allergy. Anyway, I'd be interested in anyone can answer the question of a connection family history and outgrowing the allergy.