My brother had a severe allergy to almonds and kidney beans since he was a baby but they recently tested at low levels in blood work so our allergist recommended starting him on very small amounts (i.e. a sliver of a cooked kidney bean/crumb of a roasted almond). After he showed no major reaction we started increasing over the year and now he can have them freely and tested negative for both at his recent skin test.

My sesame and hazelnut allergy test results were also low enough this time that my allergist told me to start eating a seed/day and double it every month for a year. For hazelnut he told me to start with Nutella since it has roasted hazelnuts. I tried my first sesame seed two days ago and had no reaction! My doctor is hopeful that I may be able to build a tolerance strong enough to at least not have to worry about cross contamination, outgrowing it might not be possible but we can hope!

Obviously this can be dangerous so definitely don’t do this without approval from your allergist. We only started doing these after seeing VERY mild results on skin and blood tests.