Anaphalactic to 6 Foods?
Posted: 01-15-07 4:36pm

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I have an 18 mo. Old who had an anaphalactic reaction (face swelling-eyes swelled shut) about 8 months ago. She had only had some saltine crackers and a small bite of a cinnamon stick (from chuck e. Cheeses). She was treated in the hospital and released. The allergist tested her for all sorts of things and came back with-wheat,corn,soy,peanuts,tree nuts, sesame, egg, and milk. However, she eats whole kernel corn, french fries, apple sauce with cinnamon and drinks milk daily. The wheat I buy (her face used to be rashy and oozie) but with no wheat, looks great. The others, not so sure of. It has drastically changed my families life to the point where my other kids are scared to eat anything as well (no allergenic foods in the house). I have read all of the info. I can get my hands on and the allergist is absolutely no help (says the tests are not accurate-only food trials are 100%). But, he won't do a food challenge. My poor wife spends all day cooking and preparing foods for her because most commercial products contain gluten or egg or sesame or are unlabeled for sesame, etc.
I want to challenge some foods because she recently snuck a bite of birthday cake (regular chocolate cake) and had no reaction. My wife freiked that I didn't rush her to the hospital, even though i'm armed with benedryl and 2 epi-pens. But she was fine. Any ideas on what to do or try?
UPDATE: As of last night we have tried 2 experiments- raw egg on her back and soybean on her thigh. Egg caused hives within 5 mins. and soy had no reaction. I want to do an oral challenge but my wife is absolutely against it. The actual percentage of deaths from food allergies is like .00007% (only 150 to 200 people per year) out of 300 million or so. The likelyhood of anything truly life threatening happening is so low that I am willing to try it. Ideas?