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