So it seems dd2 also has food allergies - Some positivity needed!

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DD1 (2.8) is allergic to eggs, lentils and several other things. She also has chronic eczema.

DD2's (6mo) eczema is a lot less widespread than DD1s so I had let myself believe that she might not have food allergies. Have exclusively bf to 6 mo which has been tough.

I tried her with her first taste of formula milk - and lo her poor little eyes swelled up and she had a bright red rash and hives all over her neck and chin.

Part of me feels philosophical - the other part thinks how the hell am I going to cope with a different allergy and also the likelihood she may have others (isn't soya allergy likely too with milk??)

Does anyone have any positive experience of growing out of milk allergies/ coping?? PLease help Im having a low day about it all today!

AHHHHHHHH! DD now has Chicken Pox !! I read that it can be worse with children with eczema..... any good news for me

Whelk, every day in every way it seems to be getting better and better.

So, which A&E car park are we meeting in to put peanut butter on their lips????

How about making dd1 more or less dairy free at home (so that you are just cooking one meal for everybody), but not worrying about when she's elsewhere at the moment, until you have seen whether it makes a difference to dd2 or not. Then if it does make a big difference to her, you can explain this to dd1 and let her see the evidence, and then let her get involved in the decision about what she wants to do.

Congratulations on the good test results.

I am nervous about trying ds with seafood again at the moment. He chewed on a mussel in a seafood risotto when he was about 8 months, and the roof of his mouth swelled up massively for a couple of hours - v worrying as it was a first exposure, and I thought that they weren't supposed to react until the second! I'll be trying that one in the hospital car park I think, and will start with other types of seafood (he had had prawns several times with no problem, but have been nervous about giving them since). At least he's just old enough to piriton now!

Oh we cross posted re hospital car parks bbf!

How old is your dd? You know about bicarb of soda in the bath yes? And calamine cream, not lotion?

CantSleep - DD is 2.6, how much bicarb do you put in the bath?? Would love any info!

Hmmm, funny old story, I am allergic to calamine lotion, really, it is a bit of a comedy allergy as I just pass out cold. Trying to put the cream on DD tonight and my head was spinning, black dots pressing in, DD kept saying 'What da matter Mummy?' as I had to have a lie down before I fell down!!

sooooo then, which hospital car park is closest for us all

Is it wrong that I'm sniggering at your allergy bbf?!

Great - your dd is old enough for piriton - do you have some? If not then send your dh out to nearest pharmacy/supermarket (I think you can get it without pharmacy).
I've never had a clue how much is the 'right' amount of bicarb, but I can't see that you can use too much really! I think I bunged in about 1/3 of a pot per bath when dd had it.

Ah, I see that you are home counties too - if you're northern home counties then we might be able to agree on a hospital!

Snigger away, it is pretty fecking funny

Have dosed with Piriton and Calpol (temp 39+) and she is asleep for the moment, poor pickle.

Not sure of the geographics of the HCs, I am Berks!

Ignore my exceedingly stupid HC remark, of course I am north, just not totally north.

I put it down to having come into contact with calamine tonight, sends me quite odd.

Ah your poor DD BBF - dd1 had CP pretty mildly despite being allergic/ eczema-y and didn't do much scratching - I think compared with the constant itch of eczema CP wasn't too bad. However she did have it while I was pg with dd2 so there was a whole lot of different stress to be had there!!

BBF that is a comedy allergy- what a nightmare!!

Too far from Home Counties myself - in Yorkshire, What a shame! I like the idea of us all lined up in our cars and I have thought many times (as I sit Piriton in hand, heart racing, staring at dd1's throat for a rash) as I try a random bit of nut/ seed etc that I should be doing this in a hospital car park!!!

And the specialists say it so casually - 'Just try her with a bit'

How is your DD doing with the CP? Are you managing to stay off the calamine??

Whelk - cp not going too bad, had to avoid any calamine today but she seems ok on the piriton.

Oddly that is what my specialist said to me, just try a bit! Hmmm, maybe after cp!!

Yorkshire, lucky you, sure beats Thames valley!!!

If only they knew the agonies we go through!
Yes been in North Yorkshire for 5 years now and loving it - we love the countryside - hills etc but good jobs definitely harder to find at the mo!

Finding them in London is not always the challenge,....its keeping them!!!

csws, ask for ds to be referred to dr hall at lister. thats who soph is under. she has been on 1ml of piriton fior reactions since 6months old.

got allergy appointment in jan, dont think we'll be doing a food challenge yet after an incident with a choc spread sandwich my nephew decided to give to soph. ooo she liked it. her body didnt

CSWS- re your ds's reaction to mussels, children can react on the first exposure as they could have been exposed previously in pregnancy or through breast milk.

Oh yes, good point whelk. In that case it might not have been the mussel, as I don't even like them so don't think I'd had any others, but if there were scallops in then it could have been those. I don't remember if there were or not tbh.

misdee - I might mention the reaction to my GP next time I see him, but he's not big on allergies, so I don't know if I'd get a referral or not, and not sure what if anything they'd actually do. They did nothing with dd when she was milk intolerant - just said to come back if she still was at age 2 (which she wasn't).