M is for Milk Allergy

Time for a bumper Seren update – and backstory, seeing as I’ve left out a few things these past 6 months :-)

When Seren was 12 months she visited an allergy doctor after we had discovered she was getting a hives-like rash after eating anything dairy. It was also causing her a sore throat from the reflux caused by ingestion. They did a skin test (OMG worst thing ever) and the test confirmed a massive positive reaction to milk, plus a small reaction to peanut and egg. Wonderful ::insert sarcasm::

Fast forward to last Friday, the doc wanted to do the skin test again to clarify the egg and peanut – and hurrahs she is negative on both!! So apparently the first nurse was just too gung-ho with the skin needle. That’s a happy thought I am left with for the rest of my life. But we also have a plan of attack on the milk, we are having bloodwork done (remember I just said worst thing ever? I have a feeling this will surpass that) to double confirm the negative peanut and egg reactions and also to get a full look at the milk allergy; we are hoping to have good enough results to start introducing dairy in baked goods, much as we have been doing with egg thus far.

The first skin test results looked like this -

 

M = milk (duh), E = egg, F (actually a P) = peanut, + = histamine (control) and – = saline (control)

 

The worst part was having to hold her arms away from her for 15 MINUTES so she didn’t scratch herself silly and jeopardize the results. I did not want to do this again (little did we know, eventually we did).

So yeah, she had a bigass reaction to milk alright. However the second time we did the test the E and P results looked much like the saline – she really must have plunged my poor kid with the needle this time though?! Ugh.

Here’s hoping we get to take her to Goodberry's sometime in the near future. Fingers crossed.

 

We also had her 15 month wellness appointment last Monday – what a fun week she’s had, right? She had put on weight and grown almost 2 inches so basically although she’s still a skinny minny the growth is constant so I can (slightly) relax about having an underweight child for the moment. We still have to feed her formula until 18 months though which is a total PITA but we were given the green light to wean from the bottle. Started this last week and OMG she is not a happy camper about it! Baby girl loves her bottles and pacifiers. I think it’s going to be a work in progress. Then we had the injections and a day of low grade fever but she’s all fine now.

That’s all I got today!!