Author: beth

Eli and I flew down to Long Beach for two days of appointments for his second trip. We were pretty nervous, knowing we would be learning the whole plan, going over testing results, and doing a few more tests before we got started.  In our first appointment they did two lung tests with Eli. The…

I thought I would pause my information sharing each week to share with you a hidden blessing of food allergies. Even though these will be positive stories, I haven’t shared them a lot. They hit the tenderest part of me as a mom, they are wrapped up in my own anxiety and sense of responsibility,…

When we decided to do this program, we already knew we would be flying down to the Food Allergy Institute in Long Beach, CA every few months for appointments. We decided that, for the most part, we would trade off who went with Eli every other time. In this way, we are both able to…

Between Eli’s appointments, we dose him at home with foods that will condition his body for the eventual introduction of his allergenic foods. They do this because they are foods with biosimilar food proteins to his allergens. All of this is based on extensive testing that took several appointments to complete that I will write…

There is a lot of information we have to share. Even though we’ve only been in the program since January and been to three appointments, the data is overwhelming. Today we are going to share with you what a day and week in our treatment life looks like right now. It changes every time we…

Eli was diagnosed with life threatening food allergies when he was one year old. It is a long story that I can someday tell, but in short, we learned he is allergic to milk, eggs, cashews, and pistachios. They are all anaphylactic allergies for which he carries epi-pens. I find it necessary to stop here…