Allergy test

Tuesday we found out that Simeon is no longer allergic to dairy!  Last year he tested positive for allergies, but about a month ago he didn’t have a reaction in his scratch test, so the allergist recommended an ORAL CHALLENGE!  This sounds much more foreboding than it actually ends up being.  Of course, it’s a 4-hour test, beginning at 7:45 a.m., so…well…that’s not so fun.  Not that we’re not all up by 7:45 a.m., of course, but we don’t usually have to be somewhere by then. 

However, what it actually entailed was that I brought in chocolate milk and vanilla ice cream and they fed increasing amounts of it in 20-minute intervals over 3 hours.  He took 3 increasing “doses” (heehee – they actually did call it that!) of chocolate milk.  Then he decided he didn’t want any more.

Happily, I’d decided to bring in the ice cream, because it would have been an inconclusive test and I would have had to go in AGAIN at 7:45 a.m. for a 4-hour test if Sim had just refused to drink any more chocolate milk and we didn’t have backup.  It was pretty hilarious when he made it clear he wouldn’t drink the milk and the nurse asked, “Would you like some ice cream?”  He got an enormous grin on his face. 

Then they brought MORE ice cream – and a bigger serving – 20 minutes later!  Banner day for Simeon! 

After the last dose, we waited an hour and 15 minutes while Sim watched The Sword in the Stone. 

Simeon was a bit…cranky…by lunchtime.  In general we don’t spend our mornings eating sugary things, and being cooped up in a small space while doing so didn’t help much.  But really, he was only a little bit cranky. 

Now Simeon has been cleared to eat dairy, having had no reaction to the ORAL CHALLENGE.  This is great news!  But I won’t be feeding him chocolate milk and ice cream for all the morning hours again any time soon.  Much to his dismay.