Well the good news is that Max’s blood test, which was not fun for anyone is being processed and they were able to test for all foods despite the little amount of blood we were able to get. I am looking forward to seeing that test but the frustrating thing is that he is like me. My allergies are dairy, wheat, gluten, soy and yeast but when I am stressed or tired or my immune is at all taxed then I become allergic to foods which I am not typically allergic to. I see Max having the same issues. After a while, his body like mine is flooded with candida and so now my entire house minus the hubby and the dog is on nystatin. I make cute kids but yeasty kids. It is just frustrating and hard. I am lucky that he is not so allergic that he stops breathing but you never really know what is going to affect him or myself. Basically he eats nothing outside of the home and nothing processed. I pretty much do the same. But he does eat potato chips and they seems to be ok for him. Thank goodness. Play dates can be really tough and so at least I can bring potato chips for everyone.
Max started having a horrible diaper rash and finally I put together that it was yeast. He had this type of red hot and pimply rash when he was about 13 months. What made me think it was yeast was the rash on his cheek and the sensitivities to foods he east all of the time. Again, this all happens to me daily.
There is no point for me to take Max to an allergist because he does not show up on some skin tests for allergies but I know he is intolerant. So hopefully this blood test will be better and many trips to the homeopath and chinese herbalist.
I know I am lucky that my kids are healthy and that we may all have a slight immune system issue that allows candida to grown in our body but still it is hard. I feel like I am constantly worrying about his food, the environment, his speech and well vaccines. Max had that vaccine a few weeks ago and he turned into a different little guy for 2 weeks. The language regressed and it was scary. I do not think that all kids are like this. Some kids eat cheetos all day, get 4 shots a the doctors and are fine and some kids are more sensitive. I have sensitive kids and I need to be careful with them and at the same time I need to feel like Max is also immunized to some deadly diseases. It is so tricky and I wish the US would green our vaccines.
Sam is doing good on nystatin. The thrush has cleared but her GI is not healthy yet. I tried brown rice cereal and for the last two night she has been up crying and slept in her swing and I slept on the couch.
I guess I just needed to vent. Who knows what Sam will be allergic to but I know that I can handle anything.
It must be so difficult and frustrating to have to deal with all of this. But, you’re right- at least every one is healthy. HUGS!
Wow. This all has to be extremely difficult! I mean, parenting is hard enough with worrying about severe allergies and whatnot. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Thank goodness your kids have YOU as their mom!
You are so amazing to be so in tune to your childrena nd support them so well!
Allergies are tough. Izzy has been keeping me on my toes with food sensitivities too. Except I am not nearly as imformed as you, so I just keep calling the ped office.
They are lucky to have you looking out for them! Candida is no joke!!
Hi there, visiting from Chelle’s (site looks fab, BTW). My kids are both sensitive little beings. We went through a whole heap with my daughter, allergy testing, blood tests, eczema. Not nice. She is five years old now and seems to be growing out of her dustmite allergy … With food though, we discovered (not the tests!) that she was reacting to a whole heap of food additives… so we’re pretty much back to very whole, non-coloured food
Sometimes I cave and let her have stuff (usually at birthday parties!) and I’m pleased to say that she is starting to react less! Yay!
It is hard work at times …. but so worth it for their comfort! Well done on being such an on-to-it mum!
Food allergies suck. they suck even more when people are allergic to different things in the house! I have to make everything 2x since ruby and I are on different diets, altho we dont’ know if she has any allergies. we are just trying gfcf to see if it helps her language development. Tomorrow we see the speech therapist for the first time so hopefully we’ll get some info! thinking of you@
emm… interesting ))