Update on Alex

Just a quick note about Alex. He's fully recovered from the peanut butter incident. (He was barely fazed by the whole thing. Of course, he doesn't understand the full extent of the issue, but still.)

Here are some important things that his family should know:

• He should not eat any nuts (no peanuts of course, but no other nuts either since the risk of cross contamination during processing is high)
• He should not eat anything that could have traces of peanuts or nuts; this means no food that was processed in a manufacturing plant that also processes nuts or peanuts (such as chocolate bars, baked goods)
• He has an EpiPen, which we will always have on hand, in case he accidentally eats something that causes a life-threatening reaction

We're going to take him to an allergist since we'd like to get him tested to see if there are other things we need to avoid and to get all our questions answered.

We've been reading/researching since we knew so little about food allergies. It seems that his breathing issues/asthma, eczema, and peanut allergy are probably related. We're hoping he'll outgrow these things, but because he has all three, his odds for outgrowing these issues are dismal according to some of the research we found.