Just found out our 2 YO has PA.

Hi and as we all say, welcome to the club we wish we didn't belong to! My daughter is also recently diagnosed (PA, TNA, egg), and she's 2 1/2 years old. This site has provided a wealth of info and support. I'm sure many of the veterans will have good advice for you. The suggestion I'll add as a newbie is get an allergist you feel comfortable with, who will answer the many questions you must have.
Keep posting, and take it one day at a time. Best wishes,
Mary Beth

hello and welcome to the board my son also has pa thins xmass 2002 and he scort also a 3+ if i remember right he told us that this is very low but you realy never know when he hat his reaction it only took 5 minutes for him of having breathing proplems ,he hat hives allover his face and his eys where chut and he faelt very itchy in his troth ,so it realy doesend matter for the score ,some are more sensetiv and some are les but take it allways serios because you just never know,so again wellcome to the club we all wish we could stay away fromm and we all her
wisch you the best and if you have a qustion just ask
God Bless you Thomas and Marina
PS:sorry for my spelling i hope you understand me
ps again you know ehre allmost neibours i live in hamilton and work in stoneycreek??
[This message has been edited by Thomas (edited July 15, 2002).]

Well, I guess I am the "veteran" here having dealt with a food allergic child for 7 years. My pa daughter was diagnosed by a skin test done due to her other food allergies. The skin test does not correlate with severity of the pa, but the CAP-RAST test (which is a specific blood test) does. My daughter`s CAP-RAST is very high. She had never eaten a peanut product in her life at the time she was diagnosed, so her high CAP-RAST had never been put to the test. Then a few months ago she had her first peanut reaction when she ate some imitation ice cream that I later found was on shared equipment with peanuts and not stated. The CAP-RAST correlates very strongly with the likelihood of failing a food challenge. She failed an inadvertent food challenge of a may contain.
About your child being known to throw up foods he doesn`t like, that could have also been an allergic reaction in the past (not just the time he ate the Reese`s, turned purple, and threw up). When you read the labels you will see that peanuts are in all kinds of unexpected products.
Since you are new, you probably have not seen my Petition For Accurate Labeling To Reflect Shared Equipment. I`m going to bump it up. It is on the Main Board. Please sign and ask your friends and family to sign. It will benefit your son, so that products that are may contains will be stated as such. Giving my daughter this product and watching her have a reaction because WholeSoy won`t bother to state that it is a may contain was really irritating. Not to mention the fact that each time I gave her this product not knowing it was a may contain, I decreased her chance of outgrowing the pa.

Welcome. My son is also two and is allergic to both peanuts and tree nuts. Good for you for staying away from all nuts even when you are not around your child. I feel the exact same way even though some people think I am crazy! Since our children are the same age I think you can appreciate this type of behavior: My son was playing in the rocks at a softball game yesterday and was actually being quiet for once. As I looked closer at what he was doing he was throwing M&M's that he discovered in the rocks!! I never would have thought about what kind of crap could be hidden way down under the rocks. I have known about his allergy now for 15 months and I never expected that one. Thank goodness I caught it before he put one in his mouth.
Jaime