I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham....

well at least the egg part is true for DDT. Ever since DDT could eat regular food, he would not eat eggs. Scrambled eggs, poached eggs, deviled eggs, eggs with ketchup, etc. would not get past his lips.

We had a feeling that he may have been allergic to egg whites after an incident with one of Panda's diet shakes. After he snuck a drink from the shake, he started gagging and vomiting. He broke out on his face but all was better when given Benadryl. We then had another incident when DDT broke into my parent's fridge and actually took a bite of a raw egg...I know gross. He immediately started to vomit, eyes swelled, mouth swelled but yet again, a dose of Benedryl helped ease the reaction.

We didn't think he was allergic to ALL egg product because he can eat baked goods and not have reactions. So after talking to his pediatrician, he referred us to an Allergist and DDT had his allergy test today. It wasn't as bad as we thought it was going to be and DDT was such a big boy.

There were 2 categories with 10 scenarios in each. Category 1 was environment - cat, dog, feathers, dust, etc. Category 2 was food - milk, soy, egg, wheat, etc. They dropped a "bubble" of each on his leg and then did the scratch (this was the part that DDT had issues with). We then waited for 15 minutes or so and saw what type of reaction he had to each. The main issue was the eggs. Both egg whites and yolk. So the Dr. said we need to be careful when giving him baked goods because even though he may not have reactions now, if we give him something like Mayo (more concentrated) he may have an extreme reaction. The Dr. did give us a prescription for the EpiPen for extreme cases but I am sure we will not need to use it.

Thankfully, the Dr. said we don't need to see him for another year and that is only to see if his reaction lessens to the eggs. Yea!!