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When your child begins to react even to rice milk, what do you do?

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IsabelWatchingItRainInMacondo · 12/08/2007 01:37

I posted a couple of months ago saying how happy we were as DS had outgrown his soya allergy and fish allergy (although he remained alergic to wheat, nuts, peanuts, milk, etc)

DS is fascinated with soya, it has opened his eyes to ice cream, chocolate mousse, chocolates, and many other things. But I'm not so sure he did outgrown the allergy as we were told, he gets very red around the mouth which is not my main worry but how it may be affecting other things. I feel it will break his heart if I remove soya now , at the moment I can serve him something from the rubish bin and he would happily eat it if told him it had soya in it...

The other day he had a bit of salmon and was covered in spots, TBH if he had not had chicken pox before I would have swore he was getting it.

And to make the matters worse, he is now reacting to Pure and rice milk, I'm suspecting the sunflower oil in them, but really, if I can't give him cows milk, goats milk, soya mil, oat's milk or Rice Dream, what can I give him???

This is one of those days when I have wondered how he would manage in the future if he continues to add allergies to the already long list.

What do I do?

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IsabelWatchingItRainInMacondo · 14/08/2007 08:38

Thank you.

Tatt, fortunately he doesn't remember much of the time before the restriction diet so, he's quite good at taking no for an answer (So far!). Sometimes plays up and convince the school cook that he definitively can't possible have what she is serving on the day (the cheeky little one, if he doesn't like the look of something, he can be very convincing!). But it definitively helps to know of other people with food allergies, both for the children who understand they have something in common (as Oh dear we both have a problem giggle giggle) and it's easier to relax with the mums as well as we take each other's child allergy very seriously.

Iris, feel free to swap groans and support. Your DS and mine seem to have lots in allergies in common. One question about NEocate, when we tried it, it only came in banana flavour, have they added another flavour to the list? DS is also sensitive to bananas so, although it's just an added flavour he refused point blank to drink it.
Best of luck with his appointment

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CantSleepWontSleep · 14/08/2007 08:44

Chocolate flavour here, flavour packet varieties here.

IsabelWatchingItRainInMacondo · 14/08/2007 08:55

Thanks for that Can'tSleep.

Can't find the flavours in the website. But chocolate may be what we are looking for. Will try to get a prescription for it, or at least a couple of samples, last time when he refused to drink it I was left with a full box of sachets as the pharmacy wouldn't take them back, and considering the price... I was feeling I needed to find a home for them, but being baby products not sure if that was a good idea.

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iris66 · 14/08/2007 10:09

DS has the tins of plain neocate (it tastes vile to me but he took to it brilliantly after developing problems with soya formula)

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