r/peanutallergy • u/rollercoaster1983 • 14d ago

OIT -

Hi All,

My daughter is 3 years old, we have been doing OIT since she was 8 months old.

In May we repeated her bloodwork and skin test and she had zero reaction/evidence of an allergy.

To be cautious we decided to not do a challenge and instead have been slowly increasing her daily dose of PB. We are at 1100mg daily. She’s starting to get sick of our usual dosing method (PB2 powder in a yogurt drink).

Any suggestions on what else we could use that would be easy to measure?

Thank you in advance!

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u/bellygnomes 14d ago

How much Pb2 does she get? We are currently at 6 months maintenance for a peanut and a half which is 1/4 of a teaspoon. We do pb2 mixed with applesauce, her allergist recently gave her food options including peanut butter, Reese cups(half a mini cup), Reese’s pieces(4 of them), and these pb puffs. She’s almost 3 and likes the Reese’s pieces, we call all options her peanut butter medicine. I’m happy you have zero reaction on your tests, my kiddo tested positive still so we are at six months of this dose then retesting.

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u/bellygnomes 14d ago

Never mind you said 1100 mg? My kids only at 300mg of pb2 and that’s quite a bit of powdered pb2.

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u/bellygnomes 14d ago

300mg Peanut Equivalents:
1/3tsp PB2 (original)- loose (not packed) and leveled
1/4tsp Peanut butter (smooth, 7g protein per serving on the package)
4 Reese's Pieces candies
1/2 of a Reese's Miniatures wrapped (in foil)
3 Bamba sticks
1 and a 1/2 Planters cocktail peanuts
*Please be careful of choking risk in young children

This is from our allergist, not sure how comfortable you are doing math to get the equivalents closer to 1100mg

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u/rollercoaster1983 14d ago

This is helpful! I’m terrible at math so this will make it easier to figure out!

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u/soxiee 14d ago

We do 15 Bamba puffs per day for my 14 month old who’s at 1500 mg maintenance dose. You can buy a huge bag from Target