Food allergies

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Comment by Sally LeAnn on January 25, 2012 at 12:03am

Hi everyone.  I am new to the food allergies with my children..Wyatt is my 3rd child, he  will be 2.  He was diagnosed allergic to Milk Protein right after Christmas.  He can handle small amounts (a few bites)  of cheese or yogurt.  But we haven't ventured far from that.  Lucky for us he likes soy milk.

Comment by Lindsay on February 7, 2011 at 8:08pm

Could be just hurting is tummy, what if you try only letting him have a few and see if that helps?  They could be giving him gas and that could make him have an upset tummy!

Comment by Katie, Mom365 Host on February 7, 2011 at 5:08pm

It's probably more of an upset stomach from eating too many, actually! I've just noticed that the nights he eats olives (we have them on taco night 1-2x a week), when we put him down to bed those might be the nights when he wakes up an hour or two later crying and upset. Allergies, or just too many olives? They seem like a food that could maybe give heartburn or something, right?

Comment by Lindsay on February 4, 2011 at 4:47pm

Anyone can be allergic to anything, what is it that happens when he has them?

Comment by Katie, Mom365 Host on February 4, 2011 at 3:44pm

My son loves black olives, but I am not sure they agree with him! Has anyone heard of an olive allergy?

Comment by Lindsay on May 12, 2010 at 2:28pm

Thanks, I had never heard of an allergy free box!

Comment by mary thomas on May 12, 2010 at 2:25pm

Lindsay, Angelfoodministries.com is the web site and they offer an allergen free box. It's all meat. They have locations at churches where they distribute food. There are no requirements and they accept food stamps.

Comment by Lindsay on May 12, 2010 at 10:23am

Here is the NY times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/health/research/12allergies.html

Comment by Lindsay on May 12, 2010 at 10:11am

I just got this from a journal update I get daily from my professional society (the AAPA) and thought I would share.

Food Allergies May Be Less Common Than Believed.
On its front page, the New York Times (5/12, A1, Kolata) reports that approximately "30 percent of the population believe they have food allergies," but a new report, "commissioned by the federal government," indicates that many of those people are wrong. "While there is no doubt that people can be allergic to certain foods, with reproducible responses ranging from a rash to a severe life-threatening reaction, the true incidence of food allergies is only about eight percent for children and less than five percent for adults."

Before reaching those conclusions, "researchers at Stanford University, Rand Corp., and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System searched databases, analyzed reviews, assessed controlled trials, and compared sample sizes," the Los Angeles Times (5/11, Dennis) "Booster Shots" blog reported. "Their conclusion largely seems to be: What a mess." In other words, there is "voluminous literature related to food allergy, but high-quality studies are few." Yet, the confusion begins with terminology, according to the Wall Street Journal (5/11, Hobson) "Health Blog."

It "turns out that the term 'food allergy' has no universally accepted definition, nor are there well-accepted criteria for diagnosis," CNN (5/11, Landau) pointed out. Indeed, a "common method of diagnosing food allergies is the skin prick test," and a number of physicians "also recommend blood tests called 'serum-food specific IgE,'" while others turn to the "atopy patch test." But, "none of these methods...says anything about the severity of symptoms that a person will experience if he or she ingests the substance -- for some, there may be no reaction at all." In short, "there is no one test that's better than the other, either, researchers said."

Investigators also "looked at 25 studies of seven food allergy management strategies: elimination, immunotherapy, food substitutions, diets in breastfeeding women, medical or pharmacologic therapies, probiotics, and education," MedPage Today (5/11, Fiore) reported. Regarding elimination diets, the "lone study that assessed their effects reported improvement in atopic dermatitis," and "immunotherapy is promising...but data are insufficient to recommend use." In terms of prevention, "the researchers found that delayed introduction of solids was tied to decreased food intolerance, but the quality of these studies was limited," as well.

According to Medscape (5/11, Larson), this led the investigators to conclude that the "sweeping lack of key information has led to an overdiagnosis of food allergies -- a dangerous situation." But, on the other hand, the team wrote in their Journal of the American Medical Association paper, the "overdiagnosis or misdiagnosis of food allergy by medical practitioners obscures the substantial morbidity caused in patients truly affected by immune-mediated food allergy and serves to perpetuate some public misperceptions that food allergy is a trivial medical condition." HealthDay (5/11, Preidt) also covered the study.

Comment by Zayed Meadows on May 8, 2010 at 7:31pm

The first sign of allergies for my son had was eczema. I was nursing and after my pediatrician recommended I lay off of milk we did not see much change in his skin...it gradually worsened. It was rare for him not to be congested as an infant also, so at 9 months the pediatrician recommended we do a RAST. It was then that we found out he was allergic to gluten in addition to eggs, milk and peanuts. He has since outgrown the milk and his level has dropped for the eggs so we recently did a challenge...unfortunately he failed the egg challenge. His gluten and peanut levels continue to rise.

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