Ive been an idiot. But we've no support, in fact hinderence from our allergy specialist so against my better judgement I just thought we'd avoid my babys allergen - cows milk.
Since discovering this forum I realised how much help they could be, are supposed to be so we're now waiting for an appointment in a hospital in a different county.
In the mean time Id been putting goats milk in my tea but not giving it to the baby Just In Case. He's been getting occasional, short lived red marks around his mouth for a while now. Saturday it stepped up a gear, its after I kiss him, it was a clear allergy rash but went on its own after 20 mins. Today though I kissed him and hives broke out all round his mouth I realised its after I have tea, it started to spread in the same way it did when he had anaphylaxis to a yoghurt, so I panicked and called 999 and got the epipen out and gave him anti histamine. Luckily it calmed right down.
I know I am an absolute idiot for putting him at risk like that, I feel awful.
But I need to ask, can the severity of a reaction depend on how much of the allergen they have? He had anaphylaxis to a whole cows milk youghurt, but this was a kiss after a cup of tea with goats milk. So if he had a yogurt amount equivilant of goats milk = anaphylaxis. But a tiny drop of cows milk will hopefuly just mean hives?
Either way it shows the severity gets worse with each exposure which is frightening.