A couple times a year, we make a trip to see Nathan's allergist in Spokane. Dr. Drain is awesome! She's a pediatric allergist so she sees children with allergies. Today was our visit. We got good news!
Nathan was retested for his allergies (dairy products, eggs, tree nuts, and peanuts.) He's still allergic to them all. However, his egg is much improved!! We'll go see Dr. Drain again when he turns 2 in August. We'll test him again, and she is hoping that the egg allergy will be going away! I know it's not much good news as nothing will change in our daily lives, it just gives us hope!
The dairy allergy is still bad. That is the one we hope he will outgrow the most, but his reactions are so severe to any milk product, that it will either take a long time to outgrow or possibly not at all. He will still break out in hives if you touch him after having cheese on your hands.
He won't ever outgrow the tree nut (almonds, cashew, walnuts) or peanut allergy, but we can hope they will improve at least. Maybe someday there will be allergy shots for nuts. They are beginning to do trials for that now actually.
He was also tested for a variety of other foods that can be highly allergenic. Soy, wheat, peas, shellfish, fish, and gelatin. All came back fine. No new allergies!!! Thank goodness!
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That's great news! It sounds like there is hope on the horizon. :) YAY!!!!
Yikes, i had no idea how bad his allergies were! Poor little guy, breaking out in hives if you touch him after having cheese on your hands, is quite extreme. Glad there's good news!
Do you or your husband have allergies? What causes them?
Tilleea,
I don't have any allergies and my husband is only allergic to cats! Other people in his family also have environmental allergies like molds and pollens, but no food allergies! The allergist says in families with alot of environmental allergies, many kids will end up with food allergies too.
Yeah for the good news!! I'm glad to hear about the egg allergy getting better and no new allergies is wonderful!! We still havn't tried nuts of any kind with KJ so I'm not sure if he is allergic or not.
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