Xaviers allergies

A few weeks ago we started another food trial with Xavier. We added dairy and soy back into his diet. We have still kept peanuts from him but I may be brave and try them soon.

So far we have only seen some minor negative effects with the dairy and we can't be certian that it was from the dairy. Once he ate macaroni and cheese and then a few hours later had really bad gas and he's had some other minor tummy problems as well a time or two but not directly tied to anything he ate. It's very hard to say if it's the dairy or not, but I lean towards not. He's been eating pretty much anything he wants but we are still keeping him on soy and rice milks (he's doing wonderfully with soy milk now). I'm a little concerned that the allergy has morphed into lactose intollerance and since direct dairy, especially milk is a big problem causer for that I feel better keeping him with the soy or rice. Really he only drinks a cup of milk once in awhile and then uses it on cereal so it's not a big thing at all.

He is really confused by being allowed to eat some things now and he simply won't do more than taste anything with cheese in it. He got really really good at knowing what was and was not safe and remebering to ask before he ate something new. Now we are telling him to try the things that we said weren't safe and he's more than a bit confused. Cheese is a big thing because it's so visable, that and the type of butter. He knows he wasn't allowed anything with cheese and tht he even had a special butter. Now to be told to eat the cheese and use the other butter, well it's caused more than one arguement over safe foods with him. I haen't been able to convince him to take more than a bite of something with cheese on it yet. I don't know if it's because he doesn't like the taste or he's afraid I'e lost my mind and he's going to get sick.

I had really given up hope that he would ever outgrow the allergies since most kids who do, do it by the age of two and he's 3 1/2. Just a few months ago we did a small food trial and he was reacting pretty badly so I expected the same this time around. I really am relieved that he seems to have moved away from the allergy part. I'm holding my breath a bit though because one of the biggest secondary allergy effects from dairy is fluid build up in the ears which leads to ear infections and hearing loss. He's had big problems with this in the past and it doesn't show up right away, sometimes takes weeks for the build up to be bad enough and have enough bacteria growth to show an infection. He had sever hearing loss at one point from this that they could not tell me if it would be perminate or not. I still don't know how much hearing loss he has, but it's much bette than before. if the ear infections show up he will be back off all dairy again for awhile. I can't hae hime going through those over a food.

So eerybody keep your fingers crossed and do a quiet little happy dance that he really has outgrown the allergy. We can sooooo live with lactose intollerance over the allergy.