Allergy diagnosis - HELP please

Our 1 yr. old granddaughter has just been diagnosed with some allergies to - soy, eggs, and wheat. I figured I could come to my DG family and get some great advice or links to sites for info. I thought this could shorten the research time for my DS and DDIL. Where better to start than DG? THANK YOU for any help or insight.
Appreciatively, Jan

Hi Jan -

It's so good you caught this early. It'll save her lots of discomfort. The celiac disease websites ought to have good information for avoiding wheat:

http://www.celiaccentral.org/What_is_Celiac_/13/gclid__CL6nxb3NopcCFQNfFQodygy8JA/

http://www.celiac.org/lifestyle.php

Thanks, Katie. At this point any help is one step closer to helping her. Before they had her diagnosis, she had a birthday last Wed. and had a cupcake. When we saw her the next day ,she had scratched her face so hard there were scabs on her forehead. Yes, we are glad for an early diagnosis, so we can all alter our cooking. Whew!

Poor baby.

Here's some other stuff. There are cookbooks out there, too. You are not alone:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/wheat-allergy/DS01002

http://foodallergies.about.com/od/wheatallergies/p/wheatallergy.htm

http://www.wheat-free.org/

http://books.google.com/books?q=wheat+free+diet&source=in&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=11&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results

http://www.foodallergy.org/allergens/wheat.html

What a sweetie you are.! Thanks. Will check these as well.

Hey Jan. I'm allergic to eggs. That part is really not to hard to deal with. The one thing that well intending people don't realize, is that every kind of "egg substitute" actually has the enzyme in it the most folks with egg allergies can't tolerate. It exists in both the yolk and the whites, and most forms of the substitutes have the egg whites in them. For me, it depends on how concentrated the egg is and how it is cooked. In cookies, cakes, breads, etc. it doesn't bother me because it's a low dose and cooked at a high heat. I can't take something like a 12 egg cake or pound cake because they're too concentrated. Any and all custards bother me for the same reasons. Anyhow, cooked hot and spread thin, I can deal with. They also said that I have a wheat alleargy, but after a month of no wheat products I didn't feel any different, so I went ahead and added it back in in small amounts due to the expense of trying to eat wheat free. Anyhow, I couldn't tell anything different when I started eating it again either. anyhow, I'm not sure that that was any help but I can say that the egg allergy was really easy to accomodate and the wheat allergy was really expensive to compensate for.

Thanks, Shelly. Were you diagnosed as a child or an adult? They are hoping she will outgrow it. We'll be reading labels pretty carefully. In the last few years, my DDIL has been trying to accomodate people we know with allergies when she bakes for a group, so she said I guess that God was preparing me for having a child with them.
Jan

ahhhhwww. that's so sweet that you DDIL has been looking out for others! I think that I actually grew into some of my allergies. I was diagnosed when I was 11. I had suspected a little before that, that I had some sort of food allergy, but I didn't know that those red spots that I had been getting, and then they would go, were hives. I didn't get tested for allergies until I was putting flocking on the christmas tree once and then couldn't breath. That's how they almost always surface for me, as either hives (sometimes itching with those/sometimes not) or shortness of breath. If it's eggs, it will be one of those with stomach cramps if I were take a bite of scambled eggs or something like that. They also tell me that i'm allergic to cats, but that allergy has almost dissapeared as i grew up. Dogs, only make me have a reaction if they aren't bathed that often.