About Us

 Welcome to Bo's peanut allergy treatment blog. He is a typical fun-loving 7 year old with lots of friends and a severe peanut allergy. For the record, he has been allergy tested twice within the last year and both times had a RAST score of over 100 with specific response to peanut as a severe allergen. Though I have not tested positive for any other food allergies besides peanut, He only eats foods that are peanut free and tree nut free just to be safe.  Currently, Bo is in a 2 year peanut allergy research treatment study at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACHRI) in Little Rock.

So his parents created "ASK ABOUT MY PEANUT ALLERGY" blog site to share his story and experiences about his peanut allergy, as well as, to provide resources to families dealing with food allergies like peanut allergies. We plan to update our blogs weekly to discuss interesting food allergy topics, food allergy products and to keep you updated on Bo's progress in the peanut allergy desensitization treatment study at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

We hope this site will help us learn from each other so families and kids dealing with food allergies, like Bo's peanut allergy, can stop worrying all the time about what we eat and get back to our normal lives.

The emergency medicines Bo carries with him to treat any allergic reactions include:

• Children's Benadryl
• EpiPen® (epinephrine)   Shop for EpiPen® Carriers

His other allergies include dust mites and pet dander. Though he has eczema and asthma, my low dosage daily regimine of Flovent and Zyrtec have kept them both under control.

Some of Bo's favorite things include:

• Star Wars
• LEGOS
• LSU football, basketball & baseball (Geaux Tigers!)
• New Orleans Saints
• Playing football, baseball and soccer
• Playing my Playstation 3, Wii and Nintendo DS games

Please post comments or e-mail me us if you have any questions for us or feedback about Bo's peanut allergy blog site.

askaboutmypeanutallergy @ gmail.com

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Thanks,

Bo's Parents

Comments

[Lynne]

Hi Bo,

I just wanted to say thank you for this website, and for participating in the peanut allergy trial. I do a lot of work on clinical trials in my job, and I know how important volunteers like you are! My 20 month old son is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. Your site gives me more hope for his future treatment options. good luck!

[Melanie]

Hi Bo! My little boy, Ryan, found out he had a peanut allergy last December. He is 3 years old so I have a lot to teach him about staying safe around food. I see you are a Tiger and Saints fan! We are too!! We live in southeast Louisiana and guess what!? We were in Disney World this past Mardi Gras too! Disney World was GREAT with Ryan's food allegies. As Ryan's mommy, I worry about his allergy all the time and it is nice to have someone else to "talk" to about it. I'm really glad your mom started this site, and I'll be looking for advice about going to school with a food allergy.

[Nicole Sykes]

Hello. My 3 year old son also has SEVERE allergies, also he has Eczema. My son has had his allergies/Eczema since he was just 3 weeks after his first set of shots as a baby. I have serious reasons to believe his health issues are due to the shots. Anyway, My sons case of allergies & Eczema are the WORST any of the DRS he has seen, have ever seen they say. My sons allergies are SO horrible that he is able to eat MAYBE 5 things, and even they are things he is allergic to, but they are the least of his allergies.

We have been to several DRS and none of them know what to do. My sons IgE levels are also way over 2000, close to 3000.

My son is allergic to EVERYTHING you can think of. We have had to rush him to the ER once, and had to call the EMS 2 other times besides that time. This is THE worst thing I’ve had to go through in my life, I feel horrible for my son. We are able to do so little with him due to his allergies, we are scared to take him anywhere because you never know what other people eat or touch before touching anything, it terrifies me! I am constantly watching every single little move he makes, and constantly follow him around to make sure he doesnt get into something that could seriously make him ill or kill him. Some people think I’m crazy and tell me I need to let him be a kid and to let him go a little, but it’s obvious they don’t understand how serious this is. Needless to say my son doesn’t get the chance to have a normal childhood like every other little boy and girl, it makes me sadder than I could even explain. Even sitting here typing this, I don’t feel I can even come close to explaining how bad my sons case of allergies is.

Just to give you an idea, here is a few of his allergies;

Peanuts, milk of all types, soy, fish [except white], all seafood, apples, bananas, apricots, bell peppers, red peppers, orange/yellow peppers, grapes, strawberries, carrots, green beans, gluten, peas, peaches, pears, turkey, pork, chicken, deer meat, corn, kidney beans, wheat, rice, oats, potatos, sweet potatos, watermelon, dogs, and the list goes on and on

Out of these my son eats the things he is least allergic to, Turkey products, bell peppers, watermelon on occasion, pears on occasion, white fish, occasionally sweet potato, and for treats I bought a snow cone machine, and make him snow cones with just frozen water & sugar.

We have to carry an epipen everywhere we go, even if its just to the park. I have also had an incident where 1 of the drs “on call nurses” gave my son a perscription for a regular epipen, mind you my son is 3 years old and weighs 31lbs, and can only have epipen-jr if I ended up giving my son an injection from the regular epipen he would have DIED, his heart wouldn’t be able to handle it. I am glad that I read everything, and figured out the math for the dosage. I called the dr right away, and was told my sons DR didn’t write the prescription, that it was an on call dr who did… I said to them ” so the on call dr can write a prescription and sign the DRS name?” they then told me it wasn’t the DRS signature, I responded with “yes, it is his signature, I am looking at another prescription I had received from him and it is the SAME exact sig” we went round and round about that, and finally they put the someone else on the phone and I was finally told that it was the dr, and they made a huge mistake, and they would have the dr call me right away, so needless to say they were trying to save their behinds! I was so upset about this!!

I am so glad they have passed a bill of rights for this. I can’t wait to see where they go with this, and I can’t wait to get some REAL help for my son!!!

[Lara Glynn]

Hi Bo,
My son is 6 years old and was just released from a stay at a local hospital here in Denver from an anaphylactic reaction to cross-contamination with peanuts at a Rockies baseball game. This is his 8th anaphylactic cross-contamination episode. We are both terrified and hopeful for the future. We just heard with this last hospital stay that there is a small chance that he could start a peanut desensitation therapy. We are crossing our fingers as we pray that this will be our answer. Thank you for your courage and your website. Keep up the great work!
Lara Glynn (Reese's Mom)

[Tracy]

Thank you so much for this site. My 2 year old daughter was just diagnosed last week with a severe peanut and tree nut allergy and I have been feeling very overwhelmed and scared. Your site has made me feel better and given me the most practical information. I was starting to feel like there was nothing she could eat but you gave me so many great ideas to start with. I can't wait to further explore your site!