Kyzer is a boy who is soon-to-be a pre-teen! He's a homeschooled, sixth-grader who loves gaming (video and board games), hanging out with his friends, and is learning to play the piano. He is smart, imaginative, and has an amazing memory! Favorite subjects are history and science. Least favorite subjects are handwriting and language arts.
When Kyzer was just days away from turning one, I allowed him to stick his tongue to my open-faced peanut butter sandwich. He instantly projectile vomited all over me, the kitchen floor, and himself. I swooped him up, carried him upstairs, and undressed him to put him in the bathtub. That's when I noticed the hives up and down his back. Then I noticed the red ring around his lips and the blister on his bottom lip. All these symptoms popped up VERY quickly, within a minute from his tongue touching the peanut butter. I had NO idea what was happening. No one in our family has food allergies. I didn't know anyone with a food allergy. It didn't cross my mind that a food would be causing this type of reaction. Just a couple of months prior, he had developed hives from head-to-toe due to a dog allergy. I had Benadryl on hand because of that incident so I gave him some because I knew hives equalled allergic reaction. Thank God his reaction didn't progress any further, but today I know now that because he had two body systems reacting I should have given him an epi-pen...if I had had an epi-pen. I didn't even know that epi-pens existed as this was happening, though. Just a month before this incident, he did projectile vomit out of the blue when I was feeding him a jar of baby food. Looking back, I was probably eating a peanut butter sandwich and feeding him at the same time. Since those incidents, he has had a couple of cross-contamination reactions, but nothing so severe that they required epi-pens.
So here we are....almost 11 years later. In the past few months I have been researching Oral Immunotherapy (OIT). At first, I was instantly like, "Nope. Never doing that." I couldn't ignore all the success stories, though. I started thinking, "But what if...." After talking to Kyzer about it, he is 1000% on board! He hates his allergy to peanuts. He hates knowing that a food endangers his life. He is ready to do whatever it takes to CRUSH the allergy!
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