When should milk/egg allergy baby start having tests?

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Ok I was going to tag this on to another thread but thought it might be rude to piggyback.

To cut a long story short my 7mo ds gets hives with cow/goats milk and eggs. He has eczema and had reflux/colic. He was EBF til 4months and now BLW and BFing.
Finally got our paeds appt last week who advised to keep giving him bits of milk/cheese/yoghurt/egg and record what happens and give piriton when he reacts.
I was expecting tests, especially as I've already done my own skin tests on his inner elbows and kept careful notes and photos of when and what he reacts to.
Am I being too hasty or should my doc be getting a move on? He wants to review my food diary and any changes in 3 months.

I'm back to work in 2wks and will not be able to express at work so I need to get him onto formula. Have given him increasing amounts of aptamil 3 over the last few days with no skin reaction and now up to 70mls. However he is now getting(TMI)sloppy poo. Only what I would call proper diarrhoea once but I don't know if this is a normal reaction to milk or if it's allergy related. His eczema seemed a bit redder today but I don't know if that's just my imagination!
Just to make things more confusing, I have coeliac disease and was keeping him GF but the doc said to let him eat gluten. He seems ok but again, is the poo linked to that?
Thoroughly fed up.

My 7 mth ds also suffers from eczema and is allergic to both cow/goats milk and eggs.
I can't offer any advice (we're waiting for an appointment at the allergy clinic) but I didn't want to leave you unanswered.
I'll be following this thread.

Thanks for the reply, let me know what happens x

Thanks babybarrister, I spoke to my Hv today and showed her a pic of him last time I gave him cows milk and she got me a referral to a tertiary hospital. Much happier but no appointments available at present x

Finally got an appt on choose and book after logging on am and pm since last message. 20th Sep which is a long way off but still a light at the end of the tunnel. An hour later I got a call to see if I would be interested in a cancellation..next wed! So happy to be seeing a specialist so soon

Hey
i can relate to this completely.
3 out of 4 of my children have or had ezcema and food allergies too.

Eldest now 12 years old grew out of it by 5/6 years but now has asthma, hay fever and allergies to cats, dustmites, eggs and nuts -carries epipen and pirton. My 10 yr old has no allergies or ezcema but was born at 24/40 weeks.
my 26 month old started ezcema at 5 weeks old, i had to change doctors to get referral to dermatoligist and dietitian. test after 6 months after weaned and again at 2 years. blood or skin prick tests. his the worsest allergic to milk, soya, nuts, kiwi, shell fish, dustmites and tree pollen too.
my youngest is 7 mths she started at 6 weeks but i was hot on creams and steriods, she under derm. too. i joined EAT study at St. thomas hospital weaned since 4 months on milk, fish, peanuts, sesame and wheat. Does not flare up her skin so great so far.
It's hard.

why would a doctor advise you to "try it out" on a 7 months old?? That's just cheap nonsense imho... Eczema is painful enough on them at this young age. She could react to other things too, and you wouldn't know if it's the milk or some other thing in the solids.

I got my DD tested at 7 months, and nobody mentioned she was too young. I also advise you to be more pushy, don't worry about sounding annoying! ;-)

Aaah! My allergist wouldn't even put a drop of milk on dd (8 mths) skin because she was in her office, not the hospital. I don't think your doctor is quite taking this serious enough.

She had blood tests done. The allergist said they weren't 100%, but neither are the skin tests, so there. Way to go on the appointment!

Thanks for all your input, apt is tmrw and am excited to be moving forward but not looking forward to him being tested.
Bichandmich I tried joining the EAT study but nobody got back to me and I didn't persue it, was trio busy concentrating on cleaning vomit up! Also I'm a nicu nurse, hope your 10yo is doing ok.

Back to work Thu so will be nice to have some clues before I go x

• too not trio, stupid smart phone!