I'm sure this will get buried, but one of my kids has serious food allergies and I'm 100% convinced he was born that way. I remember taking him to his newborn appointment at 3 days old and asking his pediatrician why hives kept popping up on his little body. She thought they must be "newborn hives". At 4 weeks he was sick. I was exclusively breastfeeding him and he would projectile vomit huge feedings, he was very congested and when blood appeared in his stool all signs pointed to a milk allergy. I cut milk out from my diet and he quickly was better.

But it was just the beginning. At a few months old he broke out in horrible hives from a kiss. I started realizing he was getting hives from people touching him. Not even believing it could possibly be from milk one day I put a tiny drop of milk on his cheek and watched as the hives spread. It was terrifying and was before the age of food introduction. He was an infant. I took him to an allergist, one that was actually willing to test a baby that young and at that age he already had IgE antibodies to peanut and milk. His peanut was bad and his milk was off the charts.

Now he's 6. Most kids start outgrowing food allergies at that age, his levels just climb higher and higher. We've gone as far as even doing peanut component testing and his is extremely high for the peanut component most likely to cause severe reactions. I brought him to the best food allergy clinic in the country hoping to get him into a study, but the only one that had hope for him he was excluded from. His whey levels were too high and his history of anaphylaxis made that study to dangerous.

What caused it for him? I have absolutely no idea. I have four kids, he's the only one with food allergies and his are off the charts. It couldn't have been delaying food introduction though because he was already allergic. If anything he was getting the proteins through my breast milk and was sick until I cut it out of my diet. It's a mystery to me.