Who Outgrew Nut Allergies?
Most patients didn’t outgrow their tree-nut allergies. But nearly one in 10 did, some of whom had had a severe reaction in the past to tree nuts, the study shows. Kids were more likely to have outgrown their tree-nut allergy if they were no longer allergic to peanuts. That finding should be tested further, write the researchers. They note that parents of kids who had outgrown peanut allergies may have been more willing to let those kids take the nut-allergy test. The odds of outgrowing tree-nut allergies weren’t great for kids with allergies to more than one or two different tree nuts. Those children are “unlikely to eventually outgrow their allergy,” write Fleischer and colleagues.
