Our allergist said it is possible for children to outgrow food allergies, but I am wondering if any of you know, or have had a child outgrow any of them. (i.e peanuts, eggs)?

Our allergy doctor told us that it is very unlikely that my son will outgrow peanut allergy.

I have known a few children who have outgrown their peanut allergies. I was told that they were "minor" and had not had an anaphylactic reaction. We know that each reaction can change, and that there is no "minor" peanut allergy however, in the cases I heard about their reaction was not anaphylactic and with elimination they did out grow the allergy.

My son is severely anaphylactic to peanuts and we were told he would not grow out of his peanut allergy. I am happy to tell you that he did grow out of his egg allergy at 4 years old. He was not anaphylactic to egg.

Yes--some children do outgrow their allergy.

I know of someone whose son outgrew peanut by age 4 and the allergist never thought he would.

My son is severely allergic to peanut and we were told outgrowing would be very unlikely.

His egg numbers are extremely low--within food challenge range and he still has severe reactions.

It used to be said that egg and other allergies would be outgrown by 4-5 but now they are saying more like 8-10.

In short-yes-some people do outgrow. Some people do not.

You just have to wait it out and see.

Our daughter may have outgrown her peanut allergy. She had a minor reaction at 3 and a half (coughing) after eating peanuts. She had been eating them regularly for about a year. Her skin test was positive, altough small, and the RAST was positive low (1.73). Because of the low levels of reaction and RAST, allergist thought she may be in the 20% that could outgrow.

She is now 5 and a half. Her last 3 skin prick tests, including 1 with peanut butter, were negative. RAST 6 months ago was 0.46 - almost in the negative range. Did a blood test today and if as low or lower, we will be going for a challenge at the Children's hospital.

Fingers crossed!

Sdelo,

Thanks SO much for sharing this! It's so exciting. Fingers crossed for your daughter and family. What an exciting possibility--I cannot imagine!

Let us know what happens.

Best wishes,
Jennifer B
www.foodallergybuzz.com
www.peanutfreebaseball.com

Our doctor at Duke said that they're finding that if a child hasn't outgrown the allergy by age 5, they probably won't.

My daughter is 7 so we know she's not going to out-grow her peanut allergy. However, we're very blessed to be in a clinical trial and hope she'll be peanut tolerant in the next couple of years!

Good luck!

Melanie
www.peanutclinicaltrial.blogspot.com

Melanie - thank you for your post! My son was diagnosed at the age of 19 months and we were told he has a 20% chance of outgrowing the nut allergy since he was considered an infant under the allergy guidelines. We were not told about the age limit though so that is something I will have to really pay close attention to as he approaches his 5th birthday. I will probably ask the pediatrician about this at his two year check up.

Kathy

My son was diagnosed with egg, milk, casein and peanut allergy when he was a year old. we had his skin tested again at 3 and was still allergic. he started to beable to consume more and more foods that had milk and egg baked in them. He has never been exposed to peanuts though. he is now 8, we had a skin test today and he is in the +/- range for peanut, has out grown egg and casein(which was his worst) and we are going next wednesday to has the oral test. The milk is still skin testing positive, but we are going to do an oral test on milk also.

I developed most of my food allergies - and there are many - as an adult!

erin32 how did your son do at the oral challenge?

My daughter was diagnosed at 18 mos. She is now 7 and her rast # dropped from a 21 to an 11 in 1 year she has never had a severe reaction. It looks like we are on our way to freedom. They are doing so many studies about the rast #'s and skin test reactions. They say that many children are outgrowing this all the time. I'll just keep her clean of peanut for now and pray we only have a short time left.