No more eggs!
We went to an allergist yesterday for Camden. I will start from the beginning as it seems I never posted on it. In March, Camden licked the beaters of his brother’s birthday cake batter. After that he had hives around his mouth. I notified his doctor and she had a RAST completed. That is a blood test to see if you are allergic to something. Results showed he was severely allergic to eggs (The cut off is <0.35 and Camden results were 36.09). We were prescribed an EPI-pen and sent off to see an allergist.
Well we got in to see him yesterday. They completed a skin scratch test and the results were negative. The doctor was quite surprised that Camden had such a high result on the blood test but no reaction to the skin test or to eggs cooked within foods. After much discussion, it was determined that for the next 6 months we won’t feed him eggs, but it is fine if it is in something that has been cooked. I have already figured out that he can never eat the LAFFERTY CHOCOLATE PIE!!! Oh my! But if that is the worst of it, no big deal! We will carry an epi-pen, benadryl, and oral steroid with us wherever he is and just closely watch him around new foods. After the 6 months we will have everything completed again to see where he is. The doctor said he should out grow it all by the age of 5 or so.
Gma L. said,
April 13, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
My mother’s father was very allergic to eggs; he could taste them if they had been used in some food. I sure hope that Camden didn’t get all his allergies from my side of the family. Enough’s enough!
Aunt Donna said,
April 13, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
I have friends whose little girl had an egg allergy, but as she’s gotten older (she’s about 7 now), she has pretty much outgrown it, and can eat most things now except pure cooked eggs, or things with raw eggs. Hopefully, that’ll be the extent of Camden’s allergy too.
I suppose there are worse things than not being able to eat chocolate pie, although I can’t think of them at the moment. 😉
jocelyn said,
April 14, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
eggs are gross. He isn’t missing out on much. And I can make him a chocolate pie that’s eggless and delish. it’s much better then a peanut allergy.
Daryl said,
April 15, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
It’s good to hear that this is one that they usually outgrow. The worst allergies are those that keep getting worse with each exposure (like Heather’s Dad with bees).
jocelyn said,
April 17, 2007 @ 4:41 am
dad has a bee allergy? so do i.
Dad said,
April 17, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
Mine is actually wasps.
Aunt Dianna said,
April 22, 2007 @ 8:16 pm
I, too, am glad to hear Camden will, most likely, outgrow his allergy to eggs. It seems like food allergies really run in the Lafferty family. Dayna (eggs bother her as well) and Dominic have lots of problems, too, and now I know who to blame them all on!