Shannon, great news you got an appointment! I am thinking Nov is pretty far off and enough time to recover from any reactions, I would allow a safe buffer before the appointment of 7 days if you don't want him reacting to foods when you are seeing them. K has recovered within 72 hours with even his worst of reactions not sure what your situation is with that.
If you wanted to test salicylates for some concrete info, then be sure to eat enough of them in one day 6 x 100g serves, tea included, spices. Tea alone may not be enough to get a reaction. Of course you could try the tea if nothing then up the anti. If you prefer to just the one food, maybe do something that is easy to control the dose of like a vege with sals. You are supposed to eat HIGH sals foods in the the 6 x 100g serves.
As for K, the teeth are still bothering him but I am more confident with what his teething symptoms are as opposed to "other". Also, the bought of reflux that came at the same time as the pears has now gone!
I am on day 2 of the pears and so far so good. He did do one spew today but my neice had him in a crunched position for ages after his solids so I am not counting that
He also was a tiny but fluxing toward bedtime, but really it was nothing. SO one more day of pears beforeI give the green light to the pears in a jar!
The best news of all is that I had my dietician appointment and I have an 8 week plan for mine and K's food's introductions. I am going to be eating eggs for 3 days!!
If all goes well then eggs for another 3 days but in more pure form like boiled and fried. Then eggs gets to stay in my diet. There are all sorts of things planned after that. I will be re-doing the full wheat challenge at some point apparantly they can grow out of that problem fairly quickly. There are no plans for dairy except maybe to add butter along the line if I feel comfortable.
I cannot beleive after all these food challenges etc I am STILL one the baseline diet and not allowed to stray.
K's next foods will be
green beans,
lamb,
kidney beans, (just a couple in teh meal)
& beef at the increased rate of everty 2 days since he has done so well with the "lows".
Also got the go ahead for
oil
gluten free grains like quinoa and millet
nuttelex (dairy free marg) &
homemade stock!
Only thing I forgot to ask was does that include gluten free flour like rice flour etc? That means I could bake stuff too! Like homeade rusks and all sorts of tasty things!
Very excited about what I can make for my prince with stock & nuttelex, just think of the taste with poaching things and also little fried patties etc. (He only wants to feed himself so finger foods are a must
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Unfortunately it will be while yet before he can have a bananna, that's ok we have alot to work with.