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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Touchy w/ a diaper rash

I guess I get careless sometimes. Or I just hope that the new things that we try are going to work out fine with Tyler. Sometimes I just try too many new things at once. Tyler has had a horrible bright red diaper rash since this weekend. Screaming when we change his diaper, wipe him, and put on diaper rash. The mistakes that I have made with his eating:
--Two weeks ago attempted to introduce products w/ small amounts of soy (last ingredient - soy lecithin) - it didn't go well, slight rash and diarreah.
--This weekend bought Turkey Bacon (notmally it's safe) and didn't read the ingredients. It had soy and possibly some dairy in it. He has a few small pieces before everyone knew.
--This weekend I bought roast beef (same brand that his ham that he does will with) - but it has "natural flavors" - which sometimes can be milk.
--I found kids cookies at target (packaged in nice little snack bags, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, etc). I was so excited because the ingredients didn't show milk or soy. They do have eggs and oatmeal in them - but with a few other attempts with small amounts both of these allergens he seemed fine.

Order of events were as followed:
Sat lunch roast beef
Sat night - Tyler ate his new Target cookies (and loved them)
Sunday and lunch - unsafe Turkey Bacon anf roast beef
Sunday night - horrible diaper rash (we kind of saw it coming becuase of the T. Bacon)
MOnday - cookies, roast beef
Monday night slight diaper rash
Tuesday - no cookies, no roast beef, no t. bacon
Tuesday night - HORRIBLE diaper rash

When I dropped Tyler off at day care I asked how he had been this past week. "Touchy" they said. They normall say "great", "fun" etc. This is a good sign that he also is comsuming something that is bothering him.

I'm going back to the basics, after I go to the grocery on Thursday. His regular grahams and more safe (and therefore more expsensive) foods.

Life with allergies.

1 comment:

GinaE said...

Maybe introducing one food at a time will help. It is easy to get excited and think that he may be growing out of this. Not only is it costly for you but so laborious or mundane--hard to find variety.