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The good news…Taran has outgrown his milk allergy!! Hurray!

We also had some slight bad news. According to the skin prick tests, Taran looked like he had also outgrown his egg allergy. However, they did the lip test on him (by rubbing a bit of egg on his lips) and he reacted. It went all red and came up in hives confirming that he is still currently allergic to egg.

So what happened at the milk challenge?
Yesterday, we spent the day at our local hospital undergoing a milk food challenge. They had already conducted a lip test (see previous post) to which he’d had no reaction. They started off by taking a couple of observations – blood pressure, heart rate etc.

 They then gave him a small amount of milk to drink (5ml) and observed to see if he had any reaction. There was no reaction and after twenty minutes they took all the observations again. They repeated several times whilst increasing the amounts of milk that he had to drink – 10ml, then 30ml and then 150ml.

Thankfully, Taran had no reaction at all to the milk and his observations remained the same. They continued to observe him for a couple of hours after the tests to see if there were any changes.

So great news, no longer allergic to milk. We saw the consultant who told us that we could start to introduce milk into his diet straight away. Often children who undergo food challenges, don’t actually like the taste of the food they have to test. But thankfully Taran really enjoyed drinking the milk so this morning for breakfast he got stuck straight in and had cornflakes with normal milk!