My friend sitting next to me said her friend's kid went through this therapy for milk allergy, but he had such an aversion to milk, he refused to ingest the daily maintenance spoonful and the allergy came back.
Another adult friend told me she was allergic to wheat as a child and somehow "outgrew it." She now suffers from a host of other allergies and inflammation, and decided to go wheat free to see if it would help. Within a few weeks on the diet, she was developing serious allergic reactions to wheat if there was cross-contamination. I asked if she regrets going wheat free now, and she said she doesn't, because she thinks it's been the hidden cause of all her inflammation.
I got a moment with Dr. Wood to ask about my daughter's legume-wide allergy, which started at age 5, after 2 years of tree pollen allergy. He said it's likely caused by birch tree pollen allergy (the neighbor just planted one across the street...great). I asked if immunotherapy for the pollen allergy would cure the food allergies and he said NO. I asked if she could outgrow it, again NO. I asked if it would likely result in anaphylaxis someday, and he said "probably not." He did say just as asthmatics get worse food allergy reactions when their asthma is flaring, my daughter's food allergies may get worse during pollen season, although the antihistamines she takes may help prevent any severe reactions.
May the bird of paradise fly up their nose.
). Chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys roamed free (along with several dogs and cats), but of course the cattle and hogs were confined to pens/pastures. It didn't seem to work for me, because I grew up with asthma, and it went downhill from there.
