Later that day we had an appointment at the allergist. A few months ago I had asked our regular doctor to re-fill an expired allergy prescription. But, generally, Danish people don’t believe in allergies (even doctors I guess), so she told me that I didn’t need it. When I didn’t agree with her, she called over to the University allergy clinic, and they told her – Yep, he should definitely have that. BUT…the doctor still wanted us to go the allergy clinic to see HOW allergic he is to certain foods. I wasn’t so sure about that. I decided that we’d go to at least one appointment, knowing I could just get up and walk away.
The first appointment was last week, and it was just a consultation. I liked the doctor – a pediatrician AND an allergist – she seemed knowledgeable, caring, and she didn’t blow me off (like I‘m kinda used to here). This week’s appointment was to do some skin pricks and a blood test. Peter was a trooper, always cooperative and very brave. He WANTED to see the blood being drawn from his arm to the jar. And he was especially excited about the full arm bandage that they gave him. He kept it on for two days, showing everyone, saying he had a broken arm (it was bruised, so it hurt a little) – So Dramatic!
The end result - He's still allergic to a number of things. At the first appointment, I was interested to hear that a positive peanut reaction in the blood test might actually be caused by hay fever-type grasses. I'd rather he have hay fever than a reaction to peanuts. But, the skin test showed that peanut was the dominant allergy.
And he is still allergic to eggs. That skin prick area was red for at least two days, and then I just finally had to put some steroid cream on it. Also on the list are: cat, dog, tree nuts, poppy seeds, and sesame. Pete sadly said to the doctor - I can't have any furry pets. And then she said - you could get a snake. And his eyes LIT UP! No, I don't think so.
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