Nutty Mama

Native Oregonian Mom, following her son's big leap into treatment for his deadly Peanut Allergy. Fingers crossed!

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Great News! Ty is up to a whole Peanut M&M now! He takes two a day (am/pm) with no reaction at all. His pillbox of m&m's is just too cute

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Taming Peanut Allergies - Article from Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95832.html

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75mg 2x a day for three weeks. Will update next progress the week of June 8th.

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We will be holding steady at 75mg (a piece of peanut approx the size of a pine nut) for three weeks (we will be out of town).

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Progress stalls a bit. Ty's second reaction to 100mg (itchy throat, sneezing, stomach ache) prevents the dosage to be doubled.

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Peanut dose was scaled back due to reaction from 100 mg peanut piece. Sent home with 2x daily 50mg pieces. Next challenge Tues 6/18

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Weekly appt. status- Ty's dose increased steadily yesterday from flour in grape juice to solid peanut 'slivers' which induced a reaction

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Back at it next Wednesday for another challenge/increase in dosage. Meanwhile, Ty takes 2 10mg doses a day.

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WebMD article on the new Peanut Therapy we are doing http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20090316/new-therapy-may-knock-out-peanut-allergy

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Success in little steps! Ty's first peanut therapy was a success yesterday; after two hours was able to ingest 10mg of peanut flour!

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Ty's asthma currently seems to be under control, crossing our fingers we start our first treatment on Wednesday, May 5th!

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ACHRI peanut therapy progress http://achri.archildrens.org/about/Stories/PeanutAllergy.pdf

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An article on Arkansas Children's Hosp Research Institue (the study that gave us hope!) and one boy's success

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Therapy starts (crossing fingers) in two weeks in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Starts with .25 mg of peanut 'dust' mixed in flour/grape juice.

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Happy Earth Day fellow tweeters!Nutty Mama's 1st tweet. Currently getting Ty's asthma under control,so we can start therapy in T- two weeks!