After five years of living with food allergies, Shoshana Blumenfeld was adept at avoiding a variety of foods offered at play dates and school birthday parties, including legumes, carrots, apples, peaches, and anything with nuts. But the 11-year-old from Natick couldn’t contain her excitement when her allergist gave her some stunning news in June: A relatively new blood test revealed that she wasn’t allergic to those foods after all, but was instead allergic to birch pollen, which has similar allergy-triggering proteins.
“My sister used to sing about how much she loved peanut butter and it made me so sad not to have any,” Blumenfeld said. “Right after we heard from the doctor, I made my mom stop at the grocery store on the way home so I could get some. It was amazing.”
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What a great story and clearly the your girl's parents deserve a pat on the back for their perserverience. Shoshana, have a bit eof peanut butter for me!
Great article! We've seen lots of stories from patients whose lives have been similarly changed by our uKnow Peanut test. We look forward to more children reaping the benefits of molecular allergy testing, and receiving good news like Shoshana did.
Dr. Rob Reinhardt
Medical Director, Immunodiagnostics business of Thermo Fisher Scientific
Blogger at www.isitallergyblog.com