Anaphylactic Shock: The follow up...

As you may know, my eldest daughter Sarah suffered an anaphylactic shock 2 weeks ago and ended up having to be treated with 2 doses of adrenalin, hydro cortisone and treatment for her asthma. Afterwards, she stayed in the local hospital overnight for monitoring and now carries and Epi-pen at all times.

It happened after she ate a naan bread and so we assume there was something in it that prompted the allergic reaction. She has always had a mild reaction to peanuts since she was a toddler and so has avoided them since then.

Sarah had to go for further testing today at the hospital to establish the exact cause of the anaphylaxis.

She had skin prick tests for lots of different allergies including peanuts, brazil nuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, dogs, cats, dust mites, grass and tree sap.

 

Sarah's arm after the skin prick tests. 

 

The link below gives you information about the testing and how it is done:

http://www.allergyuk.org/diagnosis--testing-of-allergy/skin-testing

 

 

The results were a little surprising. She had a mild reaction to peanuts but the biggest reaction was to dust mites and cats!

So, we can conclude that....... the naan bread must have had a dusty cat in it! lol

But seriously, we do need to establish the exact cause and the skin prick test is not always fully reliable for food allergy testing and so hopefully the blood tests (RAST test)  she had done the day after the anaphylaxis will reveal more.

 

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I don't know why we didn't do this sooner...probably because we assumed it was her peanut allergy but tonight I rang the food place where Sarah got the naan bread and they told me that they only cook in vegetable oil and the naan would NOT have had any peanut in, only almonds, coconut, banana, milk, raisins and self raising flour and they do not use peanut in anything so cross contamination would be very unlikely.

Sarah was not tested for almonds so perhaps it was that she reacted so badly to although she has eaten marzipan before and cake with almonds in...?

 

I'll keep you posted!