Hiya, long time no me on these threads...
But really that means life is good here.
Just needing some hugs and support from other moms that have had allergy sufferers with behavior problems. My dd1 has hit the terrible 3s HARD - and until recently I was pulling my hair out wondering what was going on. She had always been super sweet and relatively angelic up until ~6months ago. We were thinking it was typical 3-year-old issues, or a new sibling, but lately I'm wondering if it's more...
She has a severe anaphylactic reaction to eggs. In this same past ~6 months, she has broken out in hives 3 times to foods that have no eggs or egg products listed. A few days ago it was to bread that she has always had with no problems before.
She has lost weight in 6 months. She is on the low end of the curve and the doctor wanted to recheck her, and she actually lost 1 lb (2.2kg). However, they weren't worried about it. She is the pickiest eater I've encountered, hands down...which is naturally getting worse as she is asserting her independence.
I have multiple environmental sensitivities, and a milk intolerance. My brother has a gluten allergy. My other brother has asthma due to several environmental allergies, so it is def in our family.
We have days where I consider her behavior to be "normal" - sure there is whining and the usual stuff, but she is what I consider to be her true self where she is interacting and able to converse normally, etc. Then there are days where she cries nonstop and throws fits over the tiniest things and can't speak in any voice other than a whine (that goes on and on and on and on and god get me a drink!). No amount of love or discipline or anything in between has helped curb it on her "bad" days. In fact she has also asked me several times to give her "something to help me stop crying!" In other words, she wants to stop but can't. Our neighbors are good friends and have gone from telling us all the time how they can't believe how happy and sweet she is to not wanting to stick around when she gets in one of her moods.
So...I'm starting to think it's possibly related to other allergies? I am reading other stickies and links on this topic - thanks to those that posted them! I am going to start a food diary so I have it in hand when I go to the allergist on the 1st (that seems SO far away but I know I am lucky with how soon they could see me!).
They want to do skin testing - so any advice is appreciated in case they don't find anything specific. I am
not CONVINCED it is allergy-related - and I am in fact scared I am just searching for something because I want my angelic baby back and this is just a "phase," but I also feel like there are times where she is emotionally out of control and it isn't "her." Luckily DH is very supportive of having me get this checked out. I don't know if he thinks we will find anything, but he doesn't want to discover 10 years from now that she's been suffering and we've just been writing it off as bad behavior.
Ok, off to research some more after reading some of the stickies here. TIA.