Wednesday, October 7, 2009

food trial #1 {a picture story}: the new frontier with FPIES

ida has just eaten 1/2 tsp of pure brown rice cereal {as seen in the corner of the photograph}. according to our dietician, this brand and type of cereal doesn't give even her extremely allergic patients any problems. now we will wait 2 hours in the ER and find out if it sits well with ida...
so we will play with a cotton towel and a barf bowl!
and play with a water bottle in the window sill...
and giggle...
and chew on a plastic bowl....
conclusion: shoot. looks like rice or anything in the grain family is off the list. we are discovering, this process will be our reality for the next few years. we will have to do this at the hospital with every single type of food she will put in her mouth until we know what is safe and what is not...

eli comes for a visit.
after about 6 hours she begins to perk up and feel a bit better.

12 comments:

Sylvie Schow said...

Oh man, that's crappy. Good luck, hopefully nothing else makes her sick.

Bethany said...

Ahhh! I am so sorry -- what a pain.

Lifes Delish said...

Little Ida! What are you to do? Does the list include Quinoa? Greg's Abuela would use that as baby cereal in Peru. Complete protein good stuff. Hope they find something to feed those sweet cheeks!

Anonymous said...

Ida, we are so sad you had to go through that, we love you so much. And Jessica, sorry you had to go through that too. Love, Kathy

Stacey Salmon said...

It is so sad uo see babies sick like that. We love you Ida.
SS

Lisa said...

Shoot is right! I really hope they can find something that will sit with her. Poor thing! We are sending our love!

sandra said...

DANG...

on another note, she is SO CUTE!!!

Erin said...

Sweet girl! Good luck with all that!

US WEEKLY said...

bummmber!

angie j. said...

jess, ida is so beautiful! at least you are getting some answers...hang in there!

Proud Momma said...

what a sweety pie Jess...she doesn't even have a clue...she just knows that she is loved! Good luck with everything...where are you moving?

Lynne said...

Bless her little heart!! Calgary's lucky to keep you!