Thursday, November 13, 2008

Seth's allergies

We went back to the allergist this afternoon. It looks like Seth is still allergic to green beans and peas, but is no longer allergic to turkey, beef, and oats. That's GREAT news to me!!! Seth really doesn't care one way or another as long as he doesn't go hungry. We're re-introducing these three foods starting TODAY!! It takes five days of eating progressively more of one of the foods and then two more weeks of eating normal amounts of it to see if he has any kind of reactions. So today, I gave him 1/2 teaspoon of turkey (lunch meat). Tomorrow, he'll get one tsp; Saturday, two tsp; Sunday, three tsp; Monday, a whole turkey sandwich. Maybe Tuesday night's dinner will be turkey ham. If after a total of three weeks, he hasn't had any reaction (rash, bad diapers, vomiting, excessive grouchiness, etc.), we can assume that he's not allergic to it any more and move on to beef. Three weeks of trying beef, then three weeks of trying oats. We go back to the allergist in three months to tell her how he responded to all this. I'm starting with turkey because of Thanksgiving, but beef and oats are much more important to me. We have some moose meat in the freezer that I'd LOVE to use, but Seth can't have it because it has beef fat mixed in it (moose don't have enough fat to make good ground meat -- little explanation for non-Alaskans). So when I make something with moose, I have to make something separate for Seth. But only for three or four more weeks! And I'd love for him to be able to eat all those yummy-looking breakfast bars that the other kids eat almost every day or oatmeal, which he used to love. This is SUCH great news!!

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