Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Allergies, Allergies

As most of you know, Emerson was diagnosed with dairy allergies a year ago. After a year of breastfeeding, I tried her on cow's milk and she broke out in a horrible "rash." I had suspected she had allergies because she broke out when I gave her ice cream one time. It has been very difficult feeding her as everything seems to have dairy in it. She has gotten better with butter and mayonnaise in the recent months, so I was hoping that she would test negative for it. Wrong. She tested positive for both milk and egg allergies. The good news is, her levels were better than they were last year. I am hoping that there is something in the dairy family that she cannot eat instead of the entire dairy family. The only way to find that out is to have her try each item in her doctors office (a controlled environment). She would be tested with a small amount of something, wait 15 minutes and repeat that 4 or 5 times. She will not drink Silk, but will have it with cereal. I am not sure where her calcium is going to come from as I am really, really ready to stop pumping breast milk. Two years is long enough. Please pray that I can find some sort of calcium that she will actually eat!

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