Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

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441. four months is about the right minimum time for the challenges *in a doctor's office*

what the doctors have described to me is every day in a doctors office for at least a few weeks. they start with tiny, tiny exposures to peanuts and ramp up gradually. every time there is an excessive reaction they jump to a safer level and slowly ramp back up again. every time they jump back it extends the daily office visits.

if the patient ever gets to a certain level, then gradually those daily office visits are replaced with home administration combined with fewer and fewer office visits.

in any event you don't get to the full level of desensitization for at least a year, in most cases longer, at which point you're basically taking 3 peanuts a day to maintain that level of desensitization.

the doctors in the area have made it clear to me that this is a MAJOR time commitment for a very uncertain result. it is possible that they are taking note of the severity of mini-unblock's reaction to peanuts, which may be giving them a hint that he may be less likely to be a successful candidate for such programs than some other people with severe peanuts allergies. so it is possible that my specific information may differ from the more general case. in any event, the place where they do this is a 2-hour drive from home, and given doctor's office hours this would mean taking him out of school early for possibly months, quite possibly for something that costs a lot of money and doesn't do him any good at all.


and trust me, i'm well aware of how common peanuts are, but more and more places are eliminating them from their products and kitchens.

airlines aren't consistent about peanuts; some no longer serve peanuts at all, others still do. if you alert delta to the situation with 48 hours notice, they actually won't serve peanuts within 3 rows of during that period leading up to your flight, as well as no peanuts at all during your actual flight. of course, they can't guarantee that passengers won't bring aboard peanuts themselves, nor do they guarantee that everything they serve is free from peanut cross-contamination.