Posted by: lakeswimr
« on: May 27, 2014, 06:49:38 AM »Did the hives happen after she ate? Food allergy reactions start within minutes to up to 2 hours of eating a food. If your child was getting hives from milk and/or eggs it is important to avoid them. But if your child wasn't getting hives from them then you are spending a lot of effort for nothing.
You should insist on epi pens asap because if the hives were from food then reactions can change in the future. The longer you avoid an allergen the worse future reactions can be. The point of avoiding is to avoid reactions, not to make an allergy get better.
Test results are not very accurate. They have a super high false positive rate and the level of the test is pretty meaningless as well. A positive test without any reaction history doesn't mean anything.
If your child is tolerating baked egg and baked milk I would continue with those as that is tied to outgrowing those allergies.
I would want to do food challenges in the doctor's office before I declared my child allergic.
If you knew for sure she ate milk and egg products and got hives right away then that would be different but you sound like she just had mystery hives so you really do not know what the cause was.
You should insist on epi pens asap because if the hives were from food then reactions can change in the future. The longer you avoid an allergen the worse future reactions can be. The point of avoiding is to avoid reactions, not to make an allergy get better.
Test results are not very accurate. They have a super high false positive rate and the level of the test is pretty meaningless as well. A positive test without any reaction history doesn't mean anything.
If your child is tolerating baked egg and baked milk I would continue with those as that is tied to outgrowing those allergies.
I would want to do food challenges in the doctor's office before I declared my child allergic.
If you knew for sure she ate milk and egg products and got hives right away then that would be different but you sound like she just had mystery hives so you really do not know what the cause was.