After turning 1 years old, Maggie's pediatrician said it's time to test Maggie officially on her milk allergy. Warning: sad pictures coming up...
The whole experience was awful but here are a couple especially sad ones.
They did the tests on her back, and they basically prick the skin with the allergens. After they do the pricks, you can't touch the back for 15 minutes (you don't want to smear the pricks). Poor Maggie just wanted to be cuddled and loved. I did my best! The picture above was after they did the pricks. It was such a sad story.
This is what her back looked like about half way through. The top red spot was the ''control' spot, all the other pricks were the allergens, and you can notice the big ol red one- that is her milk. It actually got about twice as big as that, thus proving her allergy to milk. Thankfully she is not allergic to anything else like wheat, corn, nuts, soy.... But we got an epipen and are locked and loaded for any milk incidents.
We've been on the quest for recipes that are milk free and if anyone has some great ones, let me know!!! We'll keep you posted on any new allergies, the doctor said to go back in one year for more pricks to see if possibly it will go away. Let's cross our fingers that it will!!
3 comments:
This is just brutal. Geez, I would have died if I had been there. That's just so sad!
That was just what they did to Nathan too and he complained about it like you wouldn't believe so I can't imagine how that was for a baby! That was so sad. At least you finally know for sure that she is alergic to milk and you don't have the question weighing on your mind. My sister has milk-free recipes I'll tell her to send you some.
Usually mom days are great, some are kind of hard. Glad it is over and now you are ready, hope you never have to use that thing though. Glad milk is the only one, cooking will be hard enough with just the milk, but wheat and all would have been worse. I can't imagine not being able to hold her like she wanted so you don't touch them. She's got a good mamma.
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