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Originally Posted by CuckooMamma  I know that I'm on a slightly different path, but I'm going to throw it out there because I firmly believe in mamma's instinct.
Is there some reason to verify the allergy/sensitivity through testing? I haven't tested dd2 and joked along with both our ped and naturopath that it really wouldn't matter what a test said because I can see through her reaction that she's allergic. Even if a test came out negative, I still wouldn't feed her what I can see to be her allergans. I also am resigned to the idea of waiting years for the girls to outgrow anything.
Not knowing your little one's history I have no idea if I'm completely off the right path here. In our case, I could see as infants that they were allergic to things through my milk. DD2 is still nursing and I can still fiddle with allergans there - although I only tried dairy now at almost 3 - still through breastmilk and still allergic.
I just feel badly about all the poking and prodding and you had mentioned that you were reluctant. For our family, waiting until the testing is less intrusive is best for our family. As I mentioned, I couldn't imagine after my experience with dd1 that our allergies would be outgrown in months.
I was just trying to support your mamma instinct at not wanting to do the test and asking if you, not the allergist, really thought it was necessary.
I'm trying to tread lightly and not offend anyone.
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Cuckoo - you haven't offended me in the slightest. We are all entitled to our opions, and in the end will all do what's best for us and our families.
For me, I prefer to know definatively if she is allergic or not. I don't like going to restaurants and stressing over what she can/can't eat. I don't like the fact that no matter where we go I have to carry around an arsenal of food because there's very little she can eat that hasn't been made by or closely monitored by me. I don't like the limited diet we are on at home (I refuse to fix separate meals for my entire family, so because of her allergies and potential allergies we are on a very limited diet at the moment). We are vegetarian, and with a possible egg and soy allergy, and a known dairy intolerance, a lot of our sources of protein are eliminated. DD1 is sick to death of beans and high protein grains, and quite honestly, I'm getting sick of it too. Because of the negative skin tests our allergist won't proceed with the blood work until there has been another food challenge for each food (because when the possible reactions happened we weren't on an elimination so there was the potential for the reactions to be from any number of things.
It seems with her allergies that they have all be sudden onset later in life. I nursed her for 12 months and never had to eliminate anything from my diet. When she started solids she was able to eat all of her allergens with no problems for almost a year. All of this has suddenly happened in the last 6 months.
I don't necessarily prefer the poking and prodding either, but I feel it's necessary in order to have a diagnosis. We aren't doing the food challenges to see if she's outgrown anything....I don't believe that would be possible in just a few months, and we are not challenging the foods we know she's allergic to, only the one's that have thus far been inconclusive.
