Blood drawn for ALCAT today

[Handsomesmomma]

Pheww that's done! I hate having my own blood taken never mind my LO's!
We should know sometime in the next week or so I would imagine. I am excited to see, yet nervous about the results. We already know that he is allergic to peanut, wheat, egg(both) and dairy. I also suspect tomato, corn and dust/mold. Time will tell! It will be nice to be able to pinpoint the missing triggers a little more conclusively now

[kjbrown92]

How many foods did you have tested? I made the mistake of only getting 50 done, and he had alot of ones that I had never noticed. So to only have him eating the green/safe ones, didn't leave him much, so I ended up getting another 100 foods tested for him. Now that he's avoiding all the foods he's supposed to, I can tell if he's had too much of a yellow/mild one (or a combination of yellow ones) easily by mood changes. Before I just thought he was a really needy kid, and now he's only like that on certain days and it's easily traceable. I'm still waiting to find out if insurance is covering any of ours though.

[Handsomesmomma]

Kathy we had the 100 foods done. Did you do the consult with the nutritionist too? I am really excited about that part

[chlobo]

I had 50 done. But my son isn't on solids yet and they said they aren't sure how accurate it is. I'm wondering if I should do more. His list and my list don't overlap much so I'm at a loss as to what I can eat. I feel like I screwed this up and doing another blood draw on him will be traumatic.

[kjbrown92]

I did the 50 first, even though they tried to get me to do more. I thought I was SURE of the foods he was reacting to, but apparently he was reacting to a lot more than I thought. So then I had to eat crow, and ask for more foods. I got the 200 foods for DD so they only had to stick her "once" (of course she actually got stuck 4 times at 2 labs because they had trouble with her little veins). I bribed DS with a new book for each blood test!

I didn't talk to the nutritionist (I think that was only included on the big draw). With the foods they have, they do have a pretty balanced diet. On one of his days, he doesn't have much protein (choice of lentils or whitefish) but he does really well with proteins on the other days so I think it's evening out.