Zodling allergy update

[sethrak]

Dr. Morales just called. Mark's test results are in.

He is severely allergic to three foods: cow's milk, eggs, and peanuts. We are to avoid, repeat AVOID, all three. I specifically asked about wheat; she said there's a small reaction on the test, but it's low enough we can experiment with giving him stuff with wheat and see if it worsens his eczema or not.

He is severely allergic to three environmental triggers: Cats, dogs, and dust.

Great. I'm going to have to start vacuuming daily and try to keep the HVAC unit dust free too. Ah well. It's for our boy, so it's worth it.

She's going to send me the hardcopy of the test results in the mail, and some other things to read about his allergies and the epi-pen. She wants us to give him the liquid allergy medicine every day, because of the environmental triggers. She gave us six refills, so that'll last us a while.

Well, now we know. :resists urge to make GI Joe comment:: My poor boy. ::sigh:: At least we don't have to worry about wheat anymore; it's *hard* to find stuff that's wheat *and* milk *and* egg -free. The one-two punch of milk and eggs is bad enough.

Comments

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear Lord. You have my sympathies: I dodged the food allergies, but I share the fur-bearing animal misery. And mine didn't really kick in until I was much older.

I've found this site to be useful for getting allergy-sensitive products:

http://www.natlallergy.com/default.asp

Is he too young to start allergy attenuation shots?

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

I just saw this via Applegeeks and thought immediately of you (which ought to worry you):

http://www.c00lstuff.com/1133/Do_s_and_don_ts_with_babies/

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

Oooh... Air cleaners on the front page. Nice. davner and I were just talking about researching those last night. Thanks!

I have no clue about the attenuation shots. I should ask next time we see Dr. Blodt. I really don't know much about childhood allergies. No one in my family had anything worse than the usual ragweed/generic pollen allergies, and those were adult-onset. I do know he's too young to get the skin-prick test until he's at least two years old. Which is about when he's due for the next set of allergy tests anyway.

Sigh. I was so happy when I was pregnant and read that babies who are breastfed are much less likely to have food allergies; babies who live in a home where there are pets are less likely to get pet allergies.

Well, I breastfed, and we had cats long before I even conceived, and this still happened. Grr.

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee.... I was prepared for something as warped as the Mr. Potatohead-and-octopus photo. Those're pretty good.

[isisamour.livejournal.com]

A good friend of mine in Jr High/High school was allergic to everything...and I do mean EVERYTHING. The sun, the grass, anything that GREW from the ground (ie all veggies), animals etc. and she still played softball and had a very productive life outside. She took weekly shots, sometimes twice a week depending on the weather. I don't know how old you have to be to start those but at least we know it's possible eventually.

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

Yeah, eventually we can use the shots or some form of daily pill. So eventually he can go spend the summer visiting Gramma Doscher and her menagerie while Dav and I go to the beach and pretend we have no children. ::grin::

Key word, alas, is eventually. In the meantime I gotta start making like Belldandy and all those uber-domestic anime heroines, or as much like one as I can manage without the universe making a paradigm shift without a clutch.