| Hi Jacoby, so lovely to hear from you and most of all, soooo happy for both your son and yourself that things are getting better! I certainly know how you feel.
My daughter's eczema cleared dramatically as well once we switched her to Pepti Junior. Your son must have been the 1% group which cannot even tolerate extensively hydrolysed formula! thankfully he can still take neocate. And well done to you that he does like drinking it. Neocate and Pepti are known to be very unpalatable. I had such horrible memories of conditioning my daughter to it.
Perhaps best to steer clear of dairy - milk and milk-derived products - for the moment as he seems quite allergic to milk? My daughter outgrows her milk allergy sometime before her 2nd birthday. So hang in there. I cried when she had her small piece of cheese and promptly declared it the most delicious food in the world. She also reacted more to Kraft brand of cheeses.
For delayed reactions, these, I find, too to diminish as my daughter gets older. But I remain cautious even now. For her, delayed reactions can take two forms: (1) rashes only appear 2-3 days later as is true for cauliflower; or (2) rashes appear immediately and continue to develop over course of 3 days as is true for eggs (I call this "my worst nightmare reaction").
Knowing this, I would only test ONE new food in a given week, in increasing dosage. As an example, Day 1: rub minute amt of food on lips; if no bad reaction, let her consume 1cm size. Day 2: same food but 1.5cm size. Day 3: same food but 2cm size. No new foods / no visit to new places over these 3 test days plus next 3 days.
If absolutely no rxn - incorporate into regular diet.
If minor or un-bothersome rxn - incorporate only small amt once a week/fortnight
I will not be too overconcerned abt delayed rxns. Almost certainly these rxns, when they come, are not severe and don't seem to affect my daughter's mood. The worse delayed reaction we got is one bout of vomiting and one day of diarrhoea a day after eating pork and drinking marigold milk.
With homeopathy, I haven't re-visited this path since our bad experience when my daughter was one year old. I will let others share their positive experiences.  |