The rashes kept continuing and we were happy to finally get into the Allergist.
They did the back scratch test and we had to wait. She was so brave.
It wasn't anything extreme, but she did react to eggs, fish and a small reaction to wheat. I was so sad. Wheat and eggs????
Poor girl's whole face flushed up with the test.
They decided to do a blood test to see how badly her allergy was. The blood test came back really good. It showed such a small allergy. The doctor had us test it out. It seemed that she was okay with wheat. (thank heavens), but she still was having a reaction with anything that had egg baked in it. He had us take eggs completely out of her diet (although she hasn't had straight eggs yet, but cakes, cookies, corn dogs and anything else with egg.) Since then we have rarely seen a break out. We went back recently to retest and it was all almost negative, just a small reaction. The Allergist said that some people have no reaction on their back, nothing shows up in the blood work, but if they eat it they have a huge reaction. We are going to continue to avoid eggs and any kind of fish. In another year when McKenna is 3 we will do the taste test and see if she has any kind of reaction that way. She is too young now to tell us and we can't do it at home. We will be at the hospital and have the Epipen ready.
