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Pediatric Consultant - Allergies

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  • 16-06-2013 4:39pm
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    CaraMay
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    Im due to attend a pediatric consultant who specialises in allergies. My son was diagnose with lactose intolerance as a small baby and is still living on an entirely lactose free diet. I want to check what else he may be allergic to or intolerant of. He seems to be getting a lot of ear infections as well and I wonder if this is related.

    Has anyone done this? what did they do / recommend? Are there any tests which provide good results but are not very invasive on the baby?


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    2xj3hplqgsbkym
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    Not sure about kids but my friend saw an allergy consultant.

    Basically he drew a grid on each arm, put a little scratch in every square, then put a sample on each scratch. After half an hour or so, some samples became red, so she was allergic to those foods.


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    Lola18
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    My son had to have an allergy test at about 1 and a half and they just done a blood test. It was all over pretty quick and my little fella didnt even whimper! The results only took about 4/5 days to come.


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    Rose35
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    My little boy was diagnosed as lactose intolerant also, he had a blood test taken at hospital to test for other allergies, all is well thankfully, i give him regular butter on toast and sometimes he will have butter mixed in his mash, it doesn't seem to affect him very much, hopefully he will grow out of such allergy in time, still attending paediatric consultant in hospital on a six week basis to keep an eye on him, as he has reflux too and has to have a thickener added to his milk to help with that too.
    When weaning off formula I dont know what to give him though, will cross that hurdle when we come to it.


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    Moonbeam
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    My 2 year old was allergic to milk and was lactose intolerant up until recently. We were never sent for blood tests or anything but it does run in the family and it was very obvious at the time.
    She was on Nutramigen Formula and then when she got far too old for bottles we gave her water and soya milk in her cereal and soya yogurts.
    If the child is lactose intolerant they might be able for lactose free milk and yogurt and goats milk things too,they were not an option for us.


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    Rose35
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    Moonbeam wrote: »
    My 2 year old was allergic to milk and was lactose intolerant up until recently. We were never sent for blood tests or anything but it does run in the family and it was very obvious at the time.
    She was on Nutramigen Formula and then when she got far too old for bottles we gave her water and soya milk in her cereal and soya yogurts.
    If the child is lactose intolerant they might be able for lactose free milk and yogurt and goats milk things too,they were not an option for us.

    He is on SMA LF, Nutramigen waas mentioned but the SMA did the trick, consultant said studies showed that soya based products can cause infertility in males so was reluctant to try a soya based formula, so that makes me wonder what I can give him when I wean him off formula, he is 10 months now, must mention it at next appt, i give him soya yoghurts though.


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    Moonbeam
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    We were told no soya formula should be given to babies either . Soya is safe for older males just not small babies.


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    pwurple
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    Scratch test and blood tests are what we get regularly. They also do a test of moisture levels in the skin... It's not invasive, just shining a little light on a bit of their skin. It's for excema.

    A lot of allergies they can grow out of, thank goodness.

    Our little ones nut allergy blood levels are starting to drop now at age 2 1/2, so hopefully she will be able to tolerate them soon.

    For us, they started with the food tests as she had reacted to egg... So some scratch tests for those. And then blood test, because we had some positive results. It takes a few minutes, and it doesn't seem to hurt, as she didn't cry.

    Next session was all the nuts, because we had a nut positive in the previous test. Cashew, brazil, peanut, hazelnut etc.

    Then next session we had the environmentals, wool, grass, dog hair, pollen, dust mites , bee stings etc. no positives there for us. (Yay)

    I am even struggling to remember these now, there have been so many.

    They can also do a challenge test if they think the child is starting to grow out of it. This is where they give them the allergen and monitor them for a few hours.


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