How Accurate R Allergy Tests?

If she has an intolerance, it will not show up on a bloodtest, only true allergy will.

I think you should continue to do what you want and if the Dr. is pleased, the you can tell the NP to go fly a kite!

I refuse to see the NP in our Peds office at all anymore. Her ego is big enough to make her dangerous…….

When we went through allergy testing we were told that the RAST (blood) test tends towards false negatives and the skin prick test tends to have false positives. So, it’s possible that there are allergies that the blood test didn’t pick up. It could also be an intolerance which wouldn’t show up on either test. Can you ask your doctor for a referral to an allergist? Then you might be able to get more definite answers.

I hear ya on the pickiness. Emma is super picky and the things she really wants she can’t have. I can’t eat anything dairy around her. We did a second hidden dairy trial about a month ago and she loves pizza, yogurt and ice cream but they didn’t like her. She gets really bad diarrhea with mucous. It doesn’t seem to bother her though, but I stopped giving them to her so I feel bad if I eat them in front of her. Now if she doesn’t like the food she will just push your hand away. Emma has always been small, she was about 21lbs at 14 months. I was always small when I was young, my mom said I wasn’t 20 lbs until I was almost 2 and I ate everything in site with no problems. One of my really good friends daughter is almost 19 months old and she weighs 17 lbs, she is just little, she eats fine.

The only way I could get her to eat was to give her less formula. I know there are things that bother her tummy (she is always bloated and gassy) but if they don’t bother her and if her BM’s are fine I still give it to her. I didn’t get to breastfeed so I don’t know if it is better to eat a food first to see if she can handle it or if you just give her the food. Hopefully others will chim in. I definetly do not think giving straight whole milk is a good idea yet, nor do I think stopping breastfeeding is a good idea. Where the heck do they think she is going to get her nutrition from. Doctors can be so upsetting!!

Until you find out if she has allergies,intolerances, or whatever, could you try her on things like goat milk, cheese, & yogurt, rice ice cream, rice or other grained bread, etc?? So she could sort of eat what the other family members eat, but not risk eating things that she can’t tolerate? Just some ideas. I don’t know much about intolerances either!

As for the bf, I think you can totally bf as long as you want! It might be a good idea to stop the night feeds though. My kids always learned to sleep lots better at night when I stopped night feeds.

Good luck finding an answer.

Bryce’sMom2006-8-24 18:49:53

Hi Julia,

I responded to you in another post, but wanted to write in here as well. A GREAT link with info on intolerances:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:z7C1J8hLZY0J:www.disa.co m.au/Food%2520Intolerant%2520and%2520Allergic2520Baby.htm+fo od+intolerant+allergic+baby+disa+au&hl=en&lr=&st rip=0

I have been nursing my son, Lucas for 23 months. He has multiple protein intolerances and can’t deal with teh following foods: dairy, soy, beef, gluten, tomatoes, citrus and broccoli. I have removed all of them from his and my own diet. We’ve been tomato/beef broccoli free for 20 mos, dairy and soy free for over a year, and gluten free for almost six months. It’s been a trial, but worth it.

We have been to the allergist, had the blood test for all the common infant food allergies (the top 8 or 10, wheat, dairy, soy, peanut, etc. etc.) The test came up negative for EVERYthing. We also had a blood test for celiac disease done, since he improved dramatically with the removal of gluten. This also came up negative. The allergist then said he has multiple protein intolerances and we shoujld begin trialing foods again when he’s two. He said they usually either wait until the child is two, or give the child six months of being “clear” and trial foods again.

There is NO problem with you nursing your child at this point, if it’s what you want to do. Dr. Sears, a pediatrician and author, points out that children continue to benefit from breastmilk and breastfeeding until it ends no matter when that might be. So, kids like mine, who are definitely out of infancy, are still benefitting from the immunity and other properties of breastmilk even at this late age. this decision should be yours ALONE, in my opinion. Your NP sounds like a real horses &%!#@* to me!!! i hope that’s not offensive, but I can’t believe what some people try to tell you about bfeeding and reflux!

Anyway, here’s a link to Dr. Sears’ website as well:http://www.askdrsears.com/html/2/T020100.asp

Some food ideas:

Rice Dream rice ice cream

Karma Rice Ice Cream

Popscicles

Gluten free/dairy free soy free brownies, choc chip cookies, breads, pancake mixes by Bob’s Red Mill, Arrowhead Mills, Pamela’s

Hummus dip with rice crackers, cucumber, carrots

Dairy/soy/wheat free frozen waffles (Vans, Trader joe’s)

Pizza is a hard one, butyou can get pizza dough that’s gluten free, and then put things on top of it, eggplant, sauces, etc.

Potato wedges in the oven with salt, pepper and olive oil– tastes like yummy french fries but is healthier and made at home

Gluten free cereals (Gorilla Munch, Amazon Flakes) with Rice Dream Rice milk

there’s more, but I can’t think now. Don’t hesitate to ask more questions! And keep up the good work, it sounds like you are doing a wonderful job with managing your child’s reflux!!!