Allergies and Excema – its not all over yet!

Bella is supposedly ok with eggs now, although she did complain of a tummy ache at her egg challenge, and her behaviour changed, but the hospital dismissed the symptoms – as they are subjective. So we have been working on the – all clear theory.

Last night our dinner was fairly egg intensive.  Pete made crepes – with egg, and some Asian style scrambled egg, to use with other fillings in the crepes.

Bella made good headway into the meal, but about half way through said she didn’t feel like any more. 10 minutes later she began complaining of a stomach ache. This got progressively worse and she began crying, and moved into her bedroom – away from the yucky food. (“I can’t look at it mummy”). Then she threw up.

There were no signed of hives, swelling, or other allergic reactions. I gave her some phenergen anyway – I figured it couldn’t hurt. We cuddled on the couch and an hour or so later she had something else to eat.

A few point here:

1. Bella has eaten egg many times. Usually cooking in something – probably in fairly small quantities.
2. Often, I imagine, the eggs she is exposed to are battery eggs, non-organic etc. - cheap and not “real” in old fashioned sense – used in production
3. Last night Pete bought beautiful, fresh, hard shelled, organic, bio-dynamic eggs from Macro. The yolks were bright, bright yellow and they truly tasted like egg!
4. Bella hates bio-dynamic milk – but will drink Rev. The purer form (that tastes like the milk we drank when they made you drink those small bottles of milk at school) is too “milky” for her.

So I wonder whether the highly processed versions of her problem foods are better tolerated than the less processed? It makes sense that the processing reduces the quality. Or perhaps their is something specifically in the egg that is more abundant or concentrated in bio-organic eggs?

Don’t think I’ll experiment on her to find out

It will be interesting to see what happens with her skin in the next day or so. I’ll get some pictures of the excema if we get a flair up.