Actually 'allergy' and 'exaggerated or (hyper) sensitivity' are two different things.
An allergy cannot be reversed but sensitivities can be and this is an area that homeopathy works very well, as it can in the case above. Real allergies are serious and life threatening and require a patient to carry specific homeopathic remedies with them at all times in case of exposure to the substance, food, chemical or bee sting etc.
Sensitivities, exaggerated sensitivity or hyper sensitivities come and go according to the season or stress levels or various other circumstances. For example a peanut sensitively may not give a reaction at times, but at other times it will. This will depend on the stress level in the individual. If one eats several foods in a day that they are sensitive to them they will have a more significant reaction that day to the specific sensitivities. To use the above example: If the cashews were in a cookie and there was also milk in the cookie and a sensitivity to milk has been noted. Perhaps eggs were in the cookie too with a complicated kind of fat. The three things together could cause a visible reaction or the skin rash on the face. Separately the body may be able to handle these three things but not together without being stressed and hence giving some visible symptoms of the body being stressed, like the face rash. If the body is slow to cope with the stress it might take several hours for the rash to resolve, but if the ingredients keep being reintroduced in the diet then it may become a permanent rash.
A sensitivity may not even be an allergy at all. The reaction of the sensitive person could be even considered a 'normal reaction' to pollution for example.
It depends on one's tolerance level.
Again for example with the child above: If this child was exposed to the peanut oil in the formulae when too immature digestively as when the child was still in the hospital as a newborn. Then it maybe be an inability to digest fats in the diet, or certain fats only, like what is in nuts. Then this would be a digestive problem. Peanut oil is used in the body to synthesize other essential fatty acids. The digestion of a infant does not mature to digest fats until the child is two years old. Mothers breast milk has only simple fats in it. It does not have the complex ones like peanut oil.
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