Is that Processed with Peanuts?

This is a question my 6 year old daughter Kaylie asks at least 20 times a day. Anytime anyone anywhere offers her a treat, snack or even a drink she knows that this question could save her life. The slightest cross contamination that could occur from being processed with peanuts could cause Kaylie to go into anaphylactic shock closing off her airways. We first founds out she was allergic when she was one and we lived in Los Angeles, CA. I was eating a peanut butter sandwich and she broke out in hives all over just from being around me and touching the peanut butter on my hand. I immediately made her an appointment with an allergist and she was officially diagnosed with a severe, life threatening peanut allergy. I asks the allergist about the possibility of the desensitization program I had researched on the internet. I was told it was not a possibility for her because  her allergy was so severe and because she had asthma, and that it was a brand new treatment still in the experimental phases. Her Doctor then proceeded to tell me horror story after horror story of peanut related deaths, accomplishing her goal of scaring me into being overly paranoid and careful. Ever since that day She hasn't been able to eat anything without reading the ingredient labels first to make sure it's safe. If there are no ingredients listed, she simply cannot take that risk, and she doesn't eat it. Every trip to the grocery store includes checking ingredient labels on EVERYTHING that I buy, looking for that dreaded phrase "processed in a facility that processes peanuts" before I put it in my cart. As a mother it is absolutely terrifying sending her off to school or to a friends house. Every time she leaves the house I know there is a risk that if she is exposed to peanuts it's as dangerous as if a gun has gun off. For her, her allergy is a restricted way of life. She can't eat birthday cake at a birthday party. She can't eat out at a restaurant. She can't eat candy thrown at a parade, she can't sit with her friends at the park if they packed a peanut butter sandwich. The older she gets she becomes more aware of the "isolation" factor that all children with peanut allergies experience. It's heart breaking to see the look on her face time after time when she is the only one who can't do what her friends are doing. This has simply become a way of life for us. However I always hoped that we would find a solution, and I've never stopped looking. We moved to Utah When Kaylie was three, and we carefully chose the best allergy Dr. we could find, Dr. Jones at Rocky Mountain Allergy . When Kaylie turned five I took her in for her annual allergy testing appointment, Dr. Jones brought up the possibility of desensitizing her. I immediately discounted the thought because of what I had been previously told. But the idea lingered in the back on my mind and it took me a full year to wrap my head around the idea that this might be possible for her. It was right after Kaylie finished kindergarten and was about to enter 1st grade with the "school lunch" scene that I finally decided it was time. It was no coincidence that I saw our own Dr. Jones on the news reporting about another little boy who had just successfully completed the program. That was the push I needed, and I called his office the very next week and made the appointment.