Cow's Milk and Shredded Wheat

We have a new favorite in the house, real Shredded Wheat cereal.  My son tried some with cow milk while at a hotel.  It was my husband's doing, not mine as I would have waited on the milk until we were home in case things didn't go so well. Checking my blog, it was May 2011 when my son last tried cow's milk which resulted in a bad stomach ache.  This time he did great!  Funny though, how I've gotten use to the coconut milk myself, has anyone tried the So Delicious Mint Chocolate holiday edition coconut milk?  The name says it all, yum!

Stupid Cats!

An old problem reared it's ugly head this past weekend.  We were at a house with 4 cats for an early Christmas gathering.  My kid held his own for 4 hours.  When we left I thought his eyes were looking a little red, but then he fell asleep for the night.  When he woke up Monday he looked like Rocky Balboa after fighting Apollo Creed.  Had to ice him down before going to school and use some allergy eye drops.  This might be one of those allergies that just has to be managed with avoidance.

Another Win

Earlier this year my son had a bad reaction to a homemade smoothie I made consisting of whey, banana, and an Indian probiotic milk called lassi that is like a thinned out yogurt.  Usually I buy keifr which is almost identical in ingridents, but on this one occassion the store was out of kefir so I grabbed the lassi instead. Both the kefir and lassi are cultured milk, but very slilghtly in the cultures.  My son begged to try the smoothie (which I drink post-workout), and after a couple of sips he was having an allergic reaction--hives and vomitting.  Technically this could have called for an epi pen since there were 2 body reactions, but his breathing was okay and a benedryl took care of him.

After that incident he treated via NAET for the lassi and whey.  Today as I was making my Saturday post-workout shake, this time with kefir and whey, there he was again asking to try the smoothie.  He had a few sips and we waited.  And waited.  And waited.  And nothing.

So either it was clearly the lassi (which had all but one different culture), or between the NAET and the NMT, and his maturing system, his body is no longer viewing these as threats.  Either way, we'll take it.

NMT just might be working

When we started NMT the practioner said she expect the process to take 6-10 treatments.  After the six treatement I was having a really hard time determining if it was working at all.  My son wasn't having any issues, so I just kept saying that he seems stable.  The one issue that he was having from time-to-time was that after eating processed food for multiple days in a row the back of his thighs would breakout with an eczema rash.  We could control this with diet, but it would flare when we ate out a lot.  I kept telling the NMT nurse that I expect that I'd know NMT was working if these spots cleared up.  Well after the 7th treatment the spots cleared (we had been out of town and ate out 5 days in a row.)  That was over a week ago.  And then with the Pizza Hut meal, I thoroughly expected the rash to return.  But nothing on the back of his legs.  He does still has a small spot on the inside of his knee, but that's it.  Between NAET and NMT we have watched him heal from his head on down.