No more EpiPen!

Yesterday Arianna went and had some allergy testing. We wanted to get her checked for Bees, Penicillin, and anything else they thought might be helpful. The little girl was so brave, she had 12 injections for the test for bees and then like 10 pokes for a regular panel that tested for allergies to dust mites, grasses, etc. She showed up negative to everything. That means she isn't allergic to bees - which is different that what they had thought when she was younger. Yeah no more EpiPen! They still recommend that we keep benadryl because she might be more likely to swell with a sting like she did before and that will help with the swelling. They were not able to test for Penicillin because the FDA shut down the company/lab that produced the test a few years ago. Thus he said we will have to wait for a few more years until someone else develops a better test. So for right now we still have to say she is allergic to Penicillin and then will test her later on. He did say that many times with a penicillin allergy as a child that many tend to outgrow it as adults. They didn't test her for any food allergies since we could not pin one thing down that seemed to bother her. If he figure out something in the future we can then have her tested.

As for Ethan, he is now considered allergic to penicillin. After several days on Amoxicillin he got a rash all over the trunk of his body. The doctors determined that it was a reaction so no more penicillin for him either. And we will have to wait a while for him to get tested as well.

We are just so happy not to have to carry EpiPens!