1250 Milligrams

3rd shot of Xolair

Drawing blood

Eating 625 milligrams of peanut flour! That's equivalent to about 2.6 peanuts

Dr. Nadeau making sure i can continue dosing despite a mild reaction

1250 milligrams!

My dose escalation sheet

After I received my third shot of Xolair, I was able to continue dosing past the 5 milligrams I reached in the double blind challenge. 

Much like the challenges, I spent the day in the hospital continuing to escalate the amount of peanut flour every hour or so. 

By the end of the day I had reached 1250 milligrams. In just 8 hours it seemed as though I had gone from being able to eat 1/40th of a peanut, to eating the equivalent of 5 whole peanuts! For the next two weeks I will be eating 1250 milligrams of peanut flour each night. 

What does Xolair do?

Treatment with the drug Xolair has been vital in the study I'm participating in, as it will allow me to finish the study (and reach 4000 milligrams) in just six months as opposed to years. 

Xolair is considered an investigational drug (meaning it hasn't been approved by the FDA) for the treatment of food allergies in children and adults. 

Xolair itself is an antibody that helps to block IgE, which is an allergy antibody produced by the human body's immune system and is responsible for allergies and allergic symptoms.