DD has had a rash coming and going for the last couple of months. It is at the right side of her mouth, the inside of her elbows, on her wrists and the back of her knees. The right side always seem to be worse, and it varies a bit from time to time, sometimes there isn't any behind her knees, sometime only on right knee and elbow.
DH has eczema (egg allergy), and says it looks just like his did as a child. We didn't introduce milk and peanut butter until after a year, egg and other nuts until about 20 months. DD is now 2 1/2.
She doesn't seem bothered, but she's never been bothered with the rashes she's got whenever she's had a mild cold either, or the heat rash she's sometimes had in summer. (Instead she's usually bothered with how materials feed on her skin and to the touch).
We will need to see a doctor at some point, but it is quite a hassle for me getting there as we don't have a car, and I'm recovering for a nasty cold, so we probably won't get very far the rest of the week.
So we're thinking we'll try to see what it could be she's reacting to. I'm quite sure it isn't wool, although we use quite a bit of wool, but she doesn't wear it next to the skin, and only when outside. Also, we weren't out at all yesterday, and it is worse today than yesterday.
I'm trying to remember to right up a food diary, which isn't too hard to do (just to remember), as it mostly the same foods:
- oatmeal porridge with blueberries and banana for breakfast,
- rice cakes with peanut butter or hummus or homemade sugarfree rolls (yeast, butter, milk or ricemilk, salt, wheat flour, apple, cinnamon, egg) or homemade crackers (wheat flour, milk, eggs, baking powder, butter, salt, cinnamon) for snacks,
- plain creamy yoghurt with toasted oats, toasted sesame seeds, desiccated coconut, a few toasted pumpkin seeds, a few sunflower seeds, cashew nuts, fruit, usually 2-3 different: banana, orange, pear, apple, kiwifruit gold for lunch.
- cabbage, cauliflower and carrot with hummus dip, or in the weekends Daddy might give her an egg (he's worried about her iron and protein intake, she's refusing beans at the moment). and sometimes she and I make smoothie on whatever fruits we have, with a little bit of yoghurt and sometimes ground ginger or pure vanilla essence.
- dinner varies: kidney beans & rice, red lentils & pasta (both with tomato, onion, garlic, chili powder), crumbed fish with ovenbaked potatoes and sweet potatoes, pumpkin soup, green lentil soup, potato & leek soup, kumara (sweet potato) soup, w. homemade bread, usually served with silverbeet or carrot or cauliflower or occasionally broccoli (realize we seem to have got into a rut with cooking, I hate cooking so DH does most of it, while I bake).
I know we haven't had tomato in the last 3 or 4 days. And we breastfeed a lot.
Any ideas? Thoughts?
Should we just eliminate a lot of foods (I'm thinking to try eggs, nuts, milk and tomato), or take one at a time? And how long? If no improvement, how long to try, and if there is improvement?
DH has eczema (egg allergy), and says it looks just like his did as a child. We didn't introduce milk and peanut butter until after a year, egg and other nuts until about 20 months. DD is now 2 1/2.
She doesn't seem bothered, but she's never been bothered with the rashes she's got whenever she's had a mild cold either, or the heat rash she's sometimes had in summer. (Instead she's usually bothered with how materials feed on her skin and to the touch).
We will need to see a doctor at some point, but it is quite a hassle for me getting there as we don't have a car, and I'm recovering for a nasty cold, so we probably won't get very far the rest of the week.
So we're thinking we'll try to see what it could be she's reacting to. I'm quite sure it isn't wool, although we use quite a bit of wool, but she doesn't wear it next to the skin, and only when outside. Also, we weren't out at all yesterday, and it is worse today than yesterday.
I'm trying to remember to right up a food diary, which isn't too hard to do (just to remember), as it mostly the same foods:
- oatmeal porridge with blueberries and banana for breakfast,
- rice cakes with peanut butter or hummus or homemade sugarfree rolls (yeast, butter, milk or ricemilk, salt, wheat flour, apple, cinnamon, egg) or homemade crackers (wheat flour, milk, eggs, baking powder, butter, salt, cinnamon) for snacks,
- plain creamy yoghurt with toasted oats, toasted sesame seeds, desiccated coconut, a few toasted pumpkin seeds, a few sunflower seeds, cashew nuts, fruit, usually 2-3 different: banana, orange, pear, apple, kiwifruit gold for lunch.
- cabbage, cauliflower and carrot with hummus dip, or in the weekends Daddy might give her an egg (he's worried about her iron and protein intake, she's refusing beans at the moment). and sometimes she and I make smoothie on whatever fruits we have, with a little bit of yoghurt and sometimes ground ginger or pure vanilla essence.
- dinner varies: kidney beans & rice, red lentils & pasta (both with tomato, onion, garlic, chili powder), crumbed fish with ovenbaked potatoes and sweet potatoes, pumpkin soup, green lentil soup, potato & leek soup, kumara (sweet potato) soup, w. homemade bread, usually served with silverbeet or carrot or cauliflower or occasionally broccoli (realize we seem to have got into a rut with cooking, I hate cooking so DH does most of it, while I bake).
I know we haven't had tomato in the last 3 or 4 days. And we breastfeed a lot.
Any ideas? Thoughts?
Should we just eliminate a lot of foods (I'm thinking to try eggs, nuts, milk and tomato), or take one at a time? And how long? If no improvement, how long to try, and if there is improvement?
