Allergies

This has been a long week. Work is really busy for me at quarter end so I need to spend a lot of time wrapping things up. Big C got croup for the second time this year and little C seems to be getting it now. He has the beginning symptoms so this should be a tiring weekend.

But the good news this week is that Big C had his allergy testing done yesterday for eggs and dairy. The dairy was basically a non reaction!!! He will go back on Oct 11 to have a food challenge and hopefully he won't have a reaction to dairy and we'll be good to feed him dairy products. Think of the possibilities: ice cream, cake, ice cream cake, mac & cheese, baked dishes that use "cream of" soups, grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza. Oh, the good life! The doc also said he's going to talk to me about how to add baked eggs into his diet. He still shows an allergy to egg but it's decreasing and since it's decreasing, if you add a little bit of egg at a time (and when baked, it's less allergenic) then it will help desensitize the young one. On the other hand, if the allergy was increasing, it was sensitize the person and possibly make them more allergic. We won't be trying that will peanuts or tree nuts. Those will likely be life long avoidance items for him. We will have Little C tested when he's about a year old, siblings have a higher risk of having the same allergies so they recommend the testing. And since I had to cut out dairy and eggs from my diet for him too, I'm guessing he probably has some things that he's either allergic to or sensitive to as well.

So even though it's been a sick week at our house, at least we had good news too.

We are praying for Jerry too. I hope he's doing well.