Milk Allergy Results - Numbers Have Gone Up!

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louiseteve
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by louiseteve on Thu May 21, 2009 11:28 pm

Milk Allergy Results - Numbers Have Gone Up!

I have just joined here, am based in Madrid and need someone who can give me some common sense and information.

My youngest son was diagnosed with milk allergy last June aged 13mths after a long battle as was sick from 5 months. His results were medium level IgE results for Cows milk and some of the whey proteins and 91 overall and neg for Casein. He can't tolerate soya so we have fully free formula and dairy free diet. In November his results were lower for a couple of proteins but his overall IgE had gone up to 180. Today went to get the latest results and whilst I didnt expect us to be free and clear was shocked as his results have now gone into the high category and his overall IgE has gone up to 286. Does this mean anything?

We go to a specialist pediatric allergy specialist privately due to a 4 month extra delay last year to be able to see NHS specialist (GP wouldnt give him priority appointment as he was 'so big and healthy' - only because as a Brit child he's taller than the average Spanish child). Anyway, wont get into any big negatives as I just need to know whether others have seen their child's numbers go up rather than down and do those overal IgE numbers mean anything in reality? Dr is blustering and saying we'll see where we are in a year's time and that could be a 'spike' as my mother-in-law fed him white bread in early Feb that had milk proteins in but surely we would have therefore had a 'spike' last year at diagnosis since he was consuming classic milk products then right up to diagnosis.

Just to make this extra long - they arent testing wheat even though my husband was borderline positive coeliac from infancy and we have noted a significant problem when my son eats white bread (not so much wholemeal). Dr is saying it has milk in it but these are white loaves bought from baker, baked on premises and he insists he is just using the typical flour, water, salt and yeast. So where do I go next?

Appreciate this is a longish message but support is zero here, have been asking for a year for dietician assistance and they all just laugh at me. With pre-school starting in September and this now obviously going to be longer term I want to figure out whether we need second opinions and/or nutritional advice when we are in the UK this summer.

Thank you for your help.
Louise

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by Sally on Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:32 pm

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I really feel for you! I can see your post is a few months old, so before I comment too much I jsut wonder how your son is now? Are things improving? Our daughter had a milk allergy when she was a baby but (fingers crossed) seems to have grown out of it. We weren't offered any tests - just Neocate - a prescripton formula which seemed to help.

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by leckieg on Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:36 pm

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from birth my daughter was showing signs of being either lactose intolerant or having a milk protein allergy, she was tested for both but the results both came back negative, despite this she can't have any dairy or is very ill and we tried countless prescription milks until we found one she could tolerate which was nutramigen. I did ask for more tests but my request was refused and my daughter was signed off from the peaditrician, without us actually having any answers or much of an idea what it is in milk and other dairy products she is allergic to. We were fobbed off with a 'she probably has a mild case of lactose intolerance', and that was that. The only thing I was told was that by the age of two she would probably have outgrown it and every month try her with some dairy. I haven't been trying her with dairy as I dont like to see her suffer and get ill but over christmas just before her second birthday she pinched a small bit of cheese from her sister and it took an entire week to get over it, so as she gets older instead of getting better she is getting worse so we now avoid it completely, she cant eat brown bread either so don't know if there is a link? But you aren't alone in the allergy getting worse!

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by hibaaryan on Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:58 am

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Sally Heep and meerakannan, thank you for your contributions of information. I'd like also to add that Oral antihistamines can also help in the medication for eye allergies. Plus, they provide longer-lasting relief.
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