My poor baby

Zach is turning 7 month soon, 5 months shy from him turning 1 years old and mummy is tired from breastfeeding. We decided to bring him to do an allergy test at Kinder Clinic. One of the condition is that he must not have rash outbreak, be on anti-histamine or any kind of medication else the result will not be accurate. It was a tough one though because Zach is practically on either runny nose or cough or fever medicine every week! Bleah..blame it on him being in infantcare.

He made my day on Thursday because he readily finish the avocado brown rice cereal I made! I note that he don't like his food hot (weird) but he prefer room temperature (yucks!) food. Anyway, we were the first patient hence the wait was bearable (compared to my previous visit which I waited for 3hrs!). Dr. Dawn explained the procedure and asked us a few questions on allergy, sinus history - all comes from hubby!

The test!

Nurse made 10 marks on Zach's back. We're testing him on 9 highest probable allergen - cow's milk, soy milk, peanut, shrimp, egg white, egg yolk, cod fish, wheat. It was immediate on one particular spot and I suspect it was cow's milk. It looked like Zach had mosquite bite and it was a big patch. Dr Dawn is surprise that soy milk did not return a positive result even though I told her about Zach's reaction previously. She then proceed to put a drop of Isomil on Zach's back and did the test again. Voila! It turned red..gosh! I felt like crying.

Waiting 15 minutes for the prick test result

It only meant 2 choices for me; 1) Breastfeed till he overcome the allergy 2) Purchase milk powder that costs between $34 - $77 per 400g per tin!! Even if I eat abalone daily it will not be as expensive as his formula and what's more, it is not guaranteed my dear boy can take it.

This post was about 1 week old that I totally forgot what I wanted to blog.. am so sleepy!

Zach's face was covered with rashes due to the prick test.. his allergy towards these allergens will get worse as he grow older. :(