This is our last week on peanut flour! (500mg) Although it hasn't been that bad, we can't wait till we get to actual peanuts next week. The hardest part of the flour is opening the capsules and getting all the flour out. It tends to stick and if you squeeze on the capsule too hard it breaks! We have found the bigger the capsule (higher the dose) the easier it is. Carter has mixed his in ice cream, applesauce and cool whip. He, by far, loves the cool whip the most and is what we use the most. We heard that using applesauce is suppose to be good for their tummies so we used that sometimes too. He hasn't had any stomach issues since starting (knock on wood) and really no complaints of much. Actually I take that back, he HATES waiting for 2 hours to get his heart rate back up. I think if he understood what it feels like to go into anaphylatic shock it would be easier for him understand why I am asking him to slow down. He knows just from what we have told him what could happen and I think to an 8 year old those words don't hold a lot of weight. While I am so happy that he doesn't have a lot of fear of his allergy, which has made OIT so smooth, I do wish he had a healthy dose of fear to keep him from going nuts during his observation time. I am looking forward to maintenance so that he can just dose once, in the morning hopefully, and be free to do what he wants the rest of the day. I am so amazed that in a few short days he will be trying his first peanut! This is such a crazy journey! Praying the rest of the week goes smooth so we can updose to 1 peanut on Friday.
eating a go go squeeze before his dose in the office on Friday morning
showing off his last bottle of peanut flour
I really get to eat a peanut next week?
we even dose while we are out and about. last week we ate at long john silvers and dosed while we were there!
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