Thursday, March 18, 2010

Kaiden's allergies

So I decided to go ahead and meet with an allergist, Kaiden has had a few strange reactions to some foods. The first was when I was nursing and had a shrimp pasta, and after he nursed he was throwing up, and broke out in a strange rash, so the pediatrician said to avoid shellfish untill he was two and then give him just the slightest bit to see if he reacts. The next thing we noticed was dairy, when we started giving him formula he was waking up a lot at night, really cranky during the day, spitting up a lot, so we played around with his formula and when we tried soy he seemed like a different baby, then we gave him some freeze dried yogurt bites and that night he was up most of the night with an upset tummy, then we gave him just a but of cheese, and that made him throw up and was up all night again. So....long story short we were believing it was just a dairy aversion, or lactose intolerance problem, but were cutting out dairy till two as well. The lastest episode came a few days ago when I gave him applesauce and it made him throw up, then yesterday gave him a couple slices of apples and again he threw up. Our peditrician told us it's proabably time to make a visit to an allergist to determine what, if anything, he is allergic to. It will be interedsting to see, I never realized kids could be allergic to apples, but apparently 2 % off the population has an apple allergy. We'll be visitng the allergist next week and will make another post when we figure things out. That's all for now
~Kim