This is a great idea from my friend Angela!
A place for questions, comments, ideas, funny stories, thoughts and suggestions!
Please feel free to write anything you want as long as it is not offensive to anyone else. (unless it's a company that won't list corn! Grrrr! LMAO) Seriously though please I would love your imput!
Just wondering if your son ever had eczema or if eczema is a sympton of his when he has a reaction to something?
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has eczema and we were doing dairy elimination, but it's hard! I am thinking of just going straight to allergy testing, but hear it's not 100% accurate and is painful.
Hi Ashley! SOOO SORRY it took me so long to reply!!! I missed the email telling me I had a new comment!!! SOOO SORRY!
ReplyDeleteMy son always had eczema. ALWAYS. Then when we cut eggs it went totally away. Within 2-3 weeks or so. From people I've talked to eggs, seem to be a very common allergy to cause eczema. However any allergy can cause it. Technically the allergies don't cause eczema they simply cause it to act up, but take out the allergies and the flare ups tend to go away. :) So pretty much the same thing. LOL!
Is there a reason you started with milk? If you are finding it too hard and have no real reason to suspect it, I'd take a break and try cutting all eggs. Even baked goods with eggs. Also if you are doing a good job of cutting the milk out even if you aren't perfect at it yet, you should have seen a difference already.
Allergy testing is a little painful. We were lucky and my son did well with it, but some kids don't handle it well at all. I think it's more that adults are poking at them that is more freaky to them. It's not 100% My son doesn't get ANY results from a blood test. The allergist said the rate for that is about 50/50 for kids. :( And the prick test did a good job for most of his allergies EXCEPT soy. He has delayed reactions to it so we didn't see his reaction to that until 8 hours later. :( (we know it's soy from food trials) So it's def not 100%. BUT if her eczema is really bad, you might consider it. It can give you answers.
If it were me I'd try cutting eggs and if after a few weeks you still don't see a difference then I'd look into meeting with an allergist to see what they think :)
I don't have much experience on cutting out milk since that's one of the major things we can have. I would suggest if you want some great advice on continuing that route you checkout babycenter.com the allergy board :)
Tips for cutting out eggs-do your own baking and use 1/4 cup apple sauce per egg called for a recipe. Shop in the vegan aisle at the grocery store and health food store.
HUGS. It is SO hard to adjust to reading every single label. Good luck!!!! If you decide to cut out corn, wheat, eggs, soy, peanuts, treenuts etc. Check out my recipes. :) Might be something you can use. :)And you can always make them with coconut milk as a sub!!!!