Egg White Challenge

This Tuesday we had another LONG appointment at the allergist office. Davis had his egg white challenge. He was diagnosed with an egg allergy at a year old. He's NEVER had eggs before. Not even in baked goods. I had to boil 4 eggs to take with to the appointment. It's funny that I had to look up how to boil an egg. YES, it's been that long since I've boiled one. We dropped Blake off at school extra early and made it to the allergist by 8:30am. First, they had to do a mini skin test on his arm with real egg white, egg white that they usually use for the skin test, and 2 controls (histamine and saline). It took about 5 minutes for the histamine to react, but once it did....Davis became very upset and kept saying he wanted to go home. :( After the 15 minute wait, and NO reaction to the egg on the skin test we got the ok to move forward with the food challenge!

They took the first set of vital signs and gave him his first small piece of boiled egg white. I'm so glad I thought to buy a new movie the day before the appointment to keep him occupied. I plugged in the DVD player (Thanks Libby!) and started the movie. Every 15 minutes they would come back in the room to check vitals and increase his dose of egg. By the third dose he had to eat it with a spoon! We had to have 6 doses with no reactions before they would say we could add egg back in his diet. I knew how all this worked. We had been here twice before with milk. The first milk challenge we had, he did great until the very last dose when he broke out in hive. So, I knew from experience not to get my hopes up. After every dose, I would make him lift his shirt just to make sure he didn't have a rash. My fingers were crossed all the way to the end.

He LOVED the egg! I'm not sure if he was really just hungry or if he really liked it. He sure was chowing down on those eggs!

At 12 noon we finally got the verdict...he PASSED the egg white challenge! We can now add egg white in his diet! We have the egg yolk challenge scheduled for June 16th. If he passes that one that means he has outgrown ALL his food allergies! FINGERS CROSSED!