First time blogger looking for help on trying to link the Milk Protein Allergy my 6 year old son was born with to the symptoms he has now.
A quick synopsis; He was diagnosed with a MPA after showing severe colitis @ age 4 days. He was put on Neocate and after a year we weaned him back on cow's milk. He showed now colitis so they said he was healed.
Then he had an ear infection for 18 months that would not clear up. So tubes were put in to allow drainage. It worked so when they were taken out 2 years later they said OK no other problems you're good to go.
THEN he started showing other allergy symptoms such as watery, swollen & red eyes, constant runny nose & coughing. We did a prick test and they say he has all seasonal and environmental allergies except feathers. (dust, mold, leaves, pollen, cat, dog....) Food allergies came back negative on the prick test.
Well now it's gone to asthma. So far just in the tiny bronchials.
And the entire 6 years we've been dealing with SEVERE behavioral and emotional problems. They now say he is ADHD, ODD & has anxiety disorder.
Each set of symptoms were treated by a new specialist and none of them have ever questioned a link between them.
I'm burdened by the possible link in all the symptoms and wondering if the allergy symptoms are still from the MPA. We are having testing done again for the MPA (I'm demanding a 72 hour test to look for the delayed reaction allergan response). What I'm trying to research is not only a link in the allergy symptoms but one to the behavioral/emotional problems. We can't seem to find anything that is helping. Does anyone have any similar cases they are dealing with? Any suggestions? I'm posting on this site because I saw a personal story of a son with an allergy by a Lisa Solonynko. I would love to talk with her if anyone can point me her way.

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