Peanut Update

We had the whole family at the doctor's office this morning for Rylee's peanut challenge.  She successfully ate three peanuts!  This was our original goal as this helps protect her from accidental exposure and a severe reaction.  Now, we had some decisions to make.  We met with the doctor (we usually see the nurse practitioner) and discussed our options for moving forward.  We have decided to go ahead and push on with the goal of eating ten peanuts.  This would mean she could probably eat a PB&J, PB cups, Peanut M&Ms and that sort of thing. So, we are looking at around ten more weeks of doctors appointments.  We will spend this week doing three peanuts twice a day as usual.  Then, next week, we will stop using Zyrtec.  She will continue with the three peanuts twice a day and then after a week, we will do a skin test and blood test to see how much improvement those tests show.  This is mostly information the doctor wants since we are "cutting edge" in his study.  It was nice to talk to him and see his excitement in the success we have had.  A few days after that, we will do another challenge with four peanuts and proceed adding one peanut a week until we get to ten.  We may have some more bumps in the road during the process, but we are hopeful.  The thought of her getting to eat all of her Halloween candy or Easter egg treats is very exciting!  Thank you all who have prayed with us on this journey.  Hopefully our experience can help other kids in the future.