Thursday, June 19, 2008

allergy testing

We went to the allergy doctor today and has some testing done. Jeremiahs did come back positive to egg yolk, egg whites, black walnuts, and corn. We eat walnuts a lot and corn very often, so those were shockers. We thought the blood test was just a false positive, but the skin test confirm it, so we are now avoiding them, as well as all other tree nuts, just in case. Next year we will recheck Jeremiah for all tree nuts and hopefully he will not be allergic to anymore nuts.
Thomas showed up allergic to milk & peanuts. I go for peanut allergy teaching with the nurse practitioner in a few weeks. He wasn't allergic to soy, wheat, or dogs. We will be slowly switching him over now to soy formula. It is nice to be able to do that since we are no longer eligible for WIC and we used our last of it in June. It is so cool to see how God works things out. The cost of soy is about 1/4 that of the Alimentum. The hypoallergenic we have been using the past 5 months are $26 for a 16 oz can and the soy can be found as low as $12 for a 32 oz can. That is awesome.

God is good! Why do we ever doubt him?!?!
Yay, we are done with testing for now!

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