My daughter's doctor suggested that we do blood testing for milk and peanut allergies some time back. I was reluctant to have her blood drawn as she couldn't even tolerate being weighed at the doctor's office. Knowing that it would be a bad experience all around, I avoided it. Looking back I realize that I was being selfish in not wanting to put myself through that, and doing her a disservice by not having it done. Her few minutes of discomfort were nothing compared to what could happen when exposed to the wrong foods. Shame on me. Lesson learned.
Still somewhat apprehensive, I wrangled my mom to accompany me to the blood testing. My daughter sat in my lap, I held one arm, my mother stood behind me and held my daughter's head and covered her eyes (sounds mean, but my daughter was very into head butting and bucking when upset or angry - so this was for my safety as well as hers). Covering her eyes (or any young child's eyes) during a blood draw can be very helpful as if they don't see what is happening it's most likely over before they can get extremely worked up.
The draw went okay and results took about a week. Peanut was positive, milk was negative, soy was slightly abnormal. All tree nuts were negative.
Strange. We were sure that milk should be on the list so we were somewhat confused by the results. Her doctor assured us that negative blood results could be false. Our next step was going to see an allergist.
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