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this is hard work :(

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JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:05

DS has what we are presuming a dairy allergy - he comes up in this weird rash (see pic) and also has diarreah with it and up until last week i had no idea it could be responsible for his glue ear/asthma and numerous chest infections as a baby!

Any, we took out cows milk but kept him on yoghurts and cheese, seemed fine, his poo and become solid and "normal" and the spots are few and far between. He was having soya milk (alpro soya but the chocolate falvoured one because he wont drink original) but the last few days these spots have been coming back.

I've taken him off cheese and yohurts and replaced with alpro soya yoghurts but still the spots are there.

Now i'm wondering if he's becoming sensitive to soya?
I've bought rice milk with added calcium today to see how that goes down but until we get an appointment for further tests i'm at a loss. His blood tests came back as having a high level of IgEs, so i'm not sure if that will mean he is allergic to a number of different things either, what do you think?

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PixelHerder · 28/05/2008 11:09

How old is he?

It's easier to cut out both dairy and soya the older they are, and rely more on things like calcium fortified rice milk (for calcium), and proteins from meat / eggs / pulses.

JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:10

href="http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c301/HelenTimms/?action=view&current=moto_0099-1.jpg" target="_blank"> here

(hope that works)

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JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:11

nope that one didn't work

he's 3 and a half

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JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:12

here

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Psychomum5 · 28/05/2008 11:15

I am allergic to dairy too, and also get spots, but from me assessing my diet now, and knowing that I am not having any milk nor am I reacting to soya, I am wondering about mine being wheat...

I know that wheat allergy causes spots that look like flea bites, and seeing as I have no contact with pets, nor does our rabbit live in the house to bring in fleas either, I am now thinking wheat and will be asking at my next appointment.

not that I will be happy, as wheat is my one saviour now, but then, the spots are so itchy and horrid.....all over my tummy!

good luck, tis horrid raising allergy children.

JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:15

that worked - not very clear though, i had to edit it because photobucket wont allow the picture due to showing a small bit of his bottom

he knows he's not allowed normal milk,
he said to me this morning "i'm not allowed normal milk anymore"

i said "thats right, why not?"

and he said "because it makes me have spots"

bless him

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KerryMum · 28/05/2008 11:18

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PixelHerder · 28/05/2008 11:35

Has he been tested for any allergies before?

I'm not an expert on this, my only experience is DD's dairy allergy which has so far manifested as vomiting and eczema (on cheeks, wrists and torso, it didn't look like your DS's rash, not that that is conclusive in any way though ).

But if you're planning to have him tested soon then I'd be inclined to keep him on a blandish diet as much as possible, including rice milk, veg, meat (not eggs), rice, corn and pulses, until you have more info. Good luck.

JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:37

yes he's had the blood test to check for coeliacs, IgEs and dairy, didn't hear back for dairy yet, coeliacs was negative but IgEs high.

also found this...
www.healthandnutrition.co.uk/articles/dairy.htm

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KerryMum · 28/05/2008 11:39

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JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:53

i'm not sure - probably because we said we had tried eliminating milk - we tried milk first since it was what he had last thing at night. if that didn't work we were going to try egg/wheat/food colourings etc, it just so happened when we took him off cows milk, the rash didn't come back and his poo changed from a a nasty, vile smelling tar like substance to normal poo you'd expect from a 3 year old.

This isn't something to have happened over night recently, he's had this rash for over a year and at first we tried changing washing powders, softners, got him a new bed/carpets/curtains in case it was bites of some sort.

And then going back to being a baby, he first became a wheezy baby at 8 weeks old (i stopped breast feeding him at 5 weeks) and he was constantly hit by wheezing/chest infections and finally told he had asthma just after a year old.

That added to his hearing problems - told his right ear is congested (glue Ear and will probably need grommets) and 2 failed hearing tests.

If this is all down to a milk allergy then i'll quite willingly get him off milk and ALL other dairy products to have a healthy child who isn't down the doctors every few weeks for various problems

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JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 11:55

come to think of it, the doctor last year wanted stool samples to test for some kind of bug he thought could be down to the diarreah too but they came back negative too.

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Psychomum5 · 28/05/2008 13:09

kerrymum......all mine, and me, were only tested on milk and ceoliacs first, they then went on to the other screening only AFTER we cut milk etc out and still there were reactions!

on the NHS, well, near me anyway, they will not do broad screening until the teeny screening comes back.......all to do with money etc I guess.

of course, go private, and they will do lots and lots first go, as you are paying them IYGWIM, so will do as asked pretty much.....tis the differences I guess between ireland and britain!!!

my DS2 is still being tested for ceoliacs, even tho we have already have several negs, as ceoliacs is the most unreliable test for achieving a positive even tho it is obvious!!!

you need to ask about nuts tho, if he has a high Ige count, plus, with a rash like that, airborne irritants.....I was quite stunned to find how much I reacted to airborne allergens on my recent allergy tests........tree and grass pollens, cats, dogs and rabbits, plus house dust mite!!!

in fact, house dust mite made a HUGE welt on my arm, so I am very very allergic to that, but it still doesn;t explain my spots......according to someone I know, my spots are very much like ceoliacs spots when they have an overload of gluten....

ehy ho....

good luck, tis bloody hard on tinys with food problems......at least I am easy to sort me out.....I have logic ((well, except when I have PMT))

KerryMum · 28/05/2008 13:15

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Psychomum5 · 28/05/2008 13:22

you were lucky then me thinks

when my DD3 had her rast test, they just did a test to see if she had high Ige.....then said yes and sent me away to try and judge what she reacted to....she was 18mths and reacting to everything, altho she was already off milk as DD2 was already postitive and we new the signs.....DD3 was milk free from birth, altho I had tried during pregnancy and failed.

same with DS2 in fact, and he is 5!!!!(he was milk free and gluten free throughout pregnancy as I was very reactive then!!!, goodness knows why it then took them so bloody long to finally test me properly....I went so many times to the docs to be told I was a nightmare, and that bloods don't pick up etc......)

they just never did the skin pricks on them until they were 3, and the bloods was just to see if they had a high allergy count!!!!

anyhoooooo

they have now recently panicked with regards to DS2, once I told them I had epipens....they now take me more seriously as once one family memebr is that allergic, the others can follow quite quickly!

arghhhhhhh

((not trying to scare you at all jackjack))

JackJacksmummy · 28/05/2008 13:35

lol thats ok, its good to know others with dairy allergies and i'm not just being neurotic.

talking of a nut allergy - mild DD had a mild reaction a couple of years ago from a quality street sweet, she had hives coming and going all over her body for 2 days. Shes never had a quality street since or any other nut - although we haven't avoided things like chocolate spread. - Piriton sorted her out and we never visited the doctor over it.

Since she had that reaction my other 2 (the dairy one(alex) and my youngest, jack, have also had no exposure to nuts just in case - as they are both asthmatic children.

Should i also be pushing for him to be tested for a nut allergy just in case?

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Psychomum5 · 28/05/2008 13:49

jackjack, yes regarding nuts I would think!

especially if your daughter also has had a reaction to something possible to be nuts.

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