Ah, we all have our moments! I can sympathize with the "oh you'll be fine" response; Filia is generally a very healthy kid (knock wood), so when she says she's sick I am always suspicious.
Filia is nine, and she was diagnosed with the allergy at 15 months when she broke out in hives after snarfing down a dollop of peanut butter. Luckily it was very clear what had caused the reaction and then it the skin test confirmed it. But that first one is the only reaction she's ever had, so it is clearly a mild allergy -- not one of those terrifying can't-be-in-the-same-room-as-a-peanut situations. A couple of times in the last few years she has accidentally bitten into a peanutty candy without having a reaction (the most recent was a couple of months ago) so we think the allergy may no longer be a factor at all and decided to have her retested. That's what was supposed to happen this afternoon. Sigh.
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Date: 2015-03-07 02:49 am (UTC)Filia is nine, and she was diagnosed with the allergy at 15 months when she broke out in hives after snarfing down a dollop of peanut butter. Luckily it was very clear what had caused the reaction and then it the skin test confirmed it. But that first one is the only reaction she's ever had, so it is clearly a mild allergy -- not one of those terrifying can't-be-in-the-same-room-as-a-peanut situations. A couple of times in the last few years she has accidentally bitten into a peanutty candy without having a reaction (the most recent was a couple of months ago) so we think the allergy may no longer be a factor at all and decided to have her retested. That's what was supposed to happen this afternoon. Sigh.