Sounds great My youngest sons peanut rasts have gone down in the last year from 2.09 to .95 (he is 12).He has had ana type reactions to them 4 years ago now, tingling throat, metallic taste in mouth, throat swelling which lead to a choking cough, and mucous, as well as similar reactions to almonds, some more recently as last year to these, but he passed an IOFC for almonds at the end of last year after rasts went from .59 to .39.We have avoided all nuts until just recently and now he has...

Thanks for the post and I'm looking forward to the content from medical professionals in the field. I'm confused as to where we would find this blog? Is this a link that I would bookmark or can I ask to be notified when new blog posts are made?

Hi Tommom: on the upper right side of the Medical Advisory Team Blog Collection page, there is a link you can click on that says "watch this blog." If you watch this blog, you will receive all new posts and comments.

For all of our readers: this Medical Advisory Team blog will be here to discuss general issues, mainly food allergy management, and replies and comments from the Medical Advisory Team will generally be posted within a week. This initial post is to gather your ideas for topics you'd like the MAT to address over the next year. Thanks!

I'm interested in when some of these medical advances, especially desensitization, will become more available to families? Meaning, when will they become mainstream enough to be conducted in cities other than where the major research hospitals are located?

Im interested in why a rast test score can go up then back down and then back up again. In all my research its my understanding that the rast test goes to the highest peak and then comes down. I have not been able to find any literature on a rast test going up and down up and down.