DS has eczema and we have just discovered he is allergic to cows milk. He is breastfed and we are weaning but am giving him no dairy. I've also cut out dairy and soya from my own diet (although this is only day 4).
Tonight, DS had tea. About an hour later when I did his bath, his face and left arm looked blotchy like a rash had come out and after his bath his face had gone but it looked like new eczema had come out on his arm.
I am still new to all this stuff and don't really know what happpened. Could it be a reaction to the food? He had a plum baby meal which was spinach, parsnip and basil. Thinking as I write, his first allergic reaction to milk was milk stirred into parsnip. Subsequently he had an allergic reaction to milk on his skin but now I wonder if he is allergic to both milk and parsnip. It would be a coincidence but it would possibly explain the bad skin reaction the first time.
Sorry this is a bit of a stream of consciousness - what does everyone think? Will eczema come up that quickly? I feel really out of my depth with this and am worried I might do something wrong and make all this stuff worse for him.
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How quickly will eczema come up?
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strawberrycornetto · 14/09/2008 21:52
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