OK need your advice ladies... feeling very down... please please I don't want my boy to be this sensitive!~
So far: -
Rice cereal - ok
Rice cakes - ok
Rice rusk - ok
Potato - ok (when I re-started the lactease drops the mucus cleared up)
Pear - NOT ok?
I made a batch of pears by peeling 6 pears and steaming them - 2 were ripe and yellow colour, the rest green but on the softer side as opposed to hard (all were the same variety - you know the pears that are green and hard to start, then go soft when still green, then eventually yellow tinged green when very ripe?)
RPAH diet stipulates that ripe peeled pears are LOW salicylate
-unripe peeled pears are moderate salicyalte.
We already know from my food challenge that he is salicylate sensitive, but to what extent not yet tested. 90% of sals sensitive bubs should be able to tolerate lows however. Potato is low. I am hoping that my batch had a bit too many moderate sals - that explains things - but I am not sure.
Anyway, I fed him 3 teaspoons a day for 3 days. On day 3 today - he is clearly unsettled and grouchy and had a contact rash around his mouth, and also very mild red rash on cheeks. To complicate things he is OT anyway, but he only did 45 mins naps today, crying out when he woke as of to say "no I need more sleep!" 45 mins napping is a rare beast at the moment. Also last night he woke 3 times before 10:30pm however I am thinking that was the OT. His grouchiness could be the OT but his feeds are off - he is taking alot less, my boobs are engorged - which makes me think - sore tummy. His poos are fine, but they were when he failed the sals challenge too. So poos aren't a sals indicator.
Would you say this is a reaction?
Would you say the pears weren't ripe enough?
What do you think of the contact rash?
So down, the wating reaction to stop and then 3 clear days adds another week on top of next week till I can wait to add a new food for myself.!!!