On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:00:07 +0100 "Montgomery, Megan"
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> My kids will never be "challenged", I'll try them on a little  mouthful
> now and then and see what happens, if nothing happens, it'll be  slowly
> increased til either something does or they are eating normally.

Actually, that is how I was told to do a challenge since things are dose
dependent.  Start with a touch of yogurt on the tip of a spoon and work
up to full spoon over days.  This is once you already know of a
sensitivity.

For elimination and challenge to see if something was causing a reaction,
it was recommended to me to eliminate something for a week or so, then
binge on it.  Obviously, this is only with interlance type reactions that
are not blatant.  I recently did this with my 10 mo old.  We weren't
quite sure about dairy and he seemed to always have a runny nose.  I
stopped the small amounts of dairy "cheating" that I was doing and he
seemed to clear up.  I binged for a couple of nights with cheese (I felt
horrible in the AM myself being intolerant but wasn't going to give him
anything directly).  Viola!  runny nose and congestion again.

Kathy P.

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