11/7/08

Two more appointments down....


We had our two weekly appointments today. Audree was retested for milk and failed, so she was retreated for milk. She was also tested for iron, Vitamin A, minerals and salt.... of course all those failed, so she was also treated for iron today.

The specialist rechecked her a little while later and everything held, but she wanted to check on a few more things related to milk, so she checked hormones and grass. Hormones were just fine, but grass also failed. She thinks Audree might have a problem with the grass that cows eat... which in turn causes her to have problems with milk. It does make sense to me, I can't take her into freshly mowed grass because she ends up getting really wheezy and/or having an asthma attack....which is the same reaction she has with cats. I have feeling our first treatment next week will be grass and as long as milk holds through the week, the 2nd should be Vitamin A.

It's turning out to be a much longer process than we all anticipated.... but in the long run we will have a much healthier little girl. Come January I'll have to knock her treatments back to once a week instead of twice because we plan on getting me in before the baby is born and hopefully treating anything that could arise with little Jellybean before we see her face in February. I can't believe it's getting so close already.

11/5/08

Update on Yearly allergy test

Audree had her yearly allergy test with the allergist's office today. After sitting there for 2.5 hours we got some good news.....as of today she is no longer allergic to barley, oat and strawberries and only moderately allergic to soy and rye. I was told to introduce those two in small amounts and see how she does and of course introduce the others one at a time to make sure her system doesn't go into overload. For any of you that look at ingredients on a consistent basis, you know that allowing barley, oats, rye and soy opens up a ton of foods!! I'm so excited!! I will be introducing each one of them during the coming weeks.

We didn't do the blood test, we did the skin prick test, so I got to see just how reactive she is to some of these foods. Milk, eggs, peanuts and cats produced gigantic hives! Needless to say she is very allergic to them. I requested sesame and coconut.. she has a pretty good reaction to sesame, but nothing to coconut and she was slightly reactive to wheat and dogs.

We will continue to see the allergy elimination specialist and I have some good results I can present to her at our next appointment. She said the blood test would not be a good indicator because the antibodies can still remain in her system for months afterwards, but this test is a good indicator of anything that she's grown out of or that has been cleared. :-)

11/1/08

saying goodbye to milk allergy

We're continuing to do 2 appointments with "Dr. Tess" as Audree calls her for Audree's allergy clearing. Friday our first session was for sugar (all sugars) and our second session was for dairy! Woohoo! She did a mix of milk, yogurt, cheese, albumin, casein and whey. We haven't done any challenges with the dairy yet. I think all I'm willing to try at this point is kissing her after I eat something with milk in it. The combination of Audree and milk scares me.

We have our appointment with the allergist next week also....which I made over two months ago. I'll have her tested for a variety of things to determine where we stand and if anything crept in that maybe we're not aware of, we've been noticing a problem with cats and dogs lately.. hopefully those can be taken care of soon with her NAET treatments, but I don't expect it to be in the next few weeks. However, I may request the scratch test for milk and eggs.... reason being is that according to the specialist, the antibodies, though unreactive, can remain in her system for several months after she is cleared of the allergy and will still show up on the blood tests as being a problem. I'm praying that everything will miraculously cleared out of her system anyway.

Audree is getting so big. She is saying things now that just amaze us... some things we didn't think she'd ever heard before, but apparently picked them up somewhere. Her latest is "good morning." Someone said that to her Friday morning at her appointment and for the rest of the day she told everybody "good morning." Of course she loves telling everybody "happy birthday!" I can't wait until her birthday to see what she does... she'll never stop saying it then! hehe

Currently working on potty training. It's not been too difficult, taking her a few accidents to figure out, but she's getting there. I'm not ready to trust her away from the house without a diaper or pull-up yet though!

(picture - Audree showing off her stuff as an '80s girl for Halloween)