What to do now - HELP!

[Tattooed Hand]

My 12 month old recently had an IgG and IgE test done. I am not entirely sure how to read the results since our appointment with the doctor isn't for another 2 weeks.

DD has had food issues since day one. By 4 weeks she was covered in ezcema and suffering from intense digestive pain. I eliminated dairy, soy, gluten, corn, nuts, and eggs. She got alot better but never reached a baseline even though I cut out some other things that I thought she reacted to, like sesame. But still, no baseline. She has been a horrible sleeper (lots of jerky wakeups), with terrible digestive pain and periodic rashes. I rotated these foods into my diet one by one every 3 months and by July was only able to add eggs back in.

We started some solids at 9 months, though it wasn't until 10.5 months that she got really interested and now eats with gusto. But things got alot worse when she started eating solids. Now that I have these tests, I see why.

The IgG shows her allergic to alot of foods. I have some questions though. First, alot of the foods I cut out of my diet (and obviously don't feed her) did not show up on the test. But I have eaten them in her life, in the beginning and during rotations (and a couple of times by accident). I haven't done a rotation since July because it is so painful. Should I try those foods again?

All of the foods that have shown up as 2 or 3 (moderate and severe?) I should cut out? Of both our diets? for how long?

And how do I read the IgE test?

If anyone knows, or can share their approaches, I would be grateful. I've had these tests for a couple of days and have been stressing hard and am so exhausted and would love to be able to begin taking helpful measures - like I stopped eating brown rice and sweet potatoes because those thing showed up as severe and I had no idea!

[luckymamaoftwo]

Thanks for posting. I am interested to read the responses because we are in a similar place. 

[kjbrown92]

I don't know how to read the IgE test (but I think the higher the number, the more allergic she is; if any are bad, be prepared to ask about epi-pens just in case). How long have some of the foods been out of your diet? You might want to ask the company how accurate the test is for foods that haven't been consumed within 6 months (I know for the ALCAT test, which isn't an IgG test, says that foods have to be consumed within 6 months, for instance). Because if you haven't eaten them in 6 months, then she might still be sensitive to them, it just might not be showing up. So that should be one of your questions. For us, we were told to take out the offending foods for 6 months and then start adding them back in one by one (keeping track of symptoms, if any).