Today I am just frustrated. We took Livie in for allergy testing on Monday. We had a really nice doctor who took a couple of hours to thoroughly check her out. His answer was that she has no allergies.
NO ALLERGIES?
She breaks out every time we try to feed her. She gets cold-like symptoms. Now she even has itchy red eyes from only two days of being back on foods! I am so frustrated.
The doctor said that her immune system is just over-reacting to the food that it takes in and is acting like she is allergic to the food even though she really is not. He said she should grow out of it by the time she is a year or a year and a half old. That means that she could be having pseudo-allergic reactions for another 6 to 12 months, and I am just supposed to be okay with that.
Last night she was up several times in the middle of the night. By 2:30, the third time I had gotten up with her, she was inconsolable. She did not want a bottle. She did not want her binky. She just wanted to be held and comforted. She simply did not feel well. I gave her some Tylenol and held her for a while. Finally, we just took her to bed with us. I feel so sorry for her. This is not something I can fix.
I have two options. I can just stop feeding her anything but her bottle, which I do not want to do. She will not be able to eat any food with a spoon that way, and she really wants to. The other option is give it to her a couple days on food and a couple days off. The couple days on will produce the allergic reaction which will induce us to stop any feedings except a bottle. The couple days off will include oral antihistamines, Benadryl, and Tylenol to make her feel better. Eating should not be this hard for someone who is not actually allergic to anything.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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