Hi Tiff - As you know Matthew is serevely allergic to egg, both the white and yolk, so much so that he goes into anaphylaxis shock, the specialist prescribed an epi pen for him and we also have phenergen on hand which I`ve had to use a number of times over the last few months. The specialist also gave us a sheet of a plan as to what to do if Matthew has another anaphylaxis shock, this plan is to be given to his preschool when he starts in 2008.

Matthew is also allergic to chicken, wheat, dust mites, mould, pineapple, tomato, vegemite (this is just a new reaction) but the egg is the major concern as with the scratch test within 1 second his reaction came up and within seconds he actually had 4 big red itchy lumps which all joined together and he started itching his face and that was just with the scratch test :eek: They couldn`t believe how quickly or how badly he reacted to the egg, he wasn`t tested for fish or peanuts but I don`t give either to him.

Matthew isn`t a sickly child (he`s only had 3 colds and a couple of bouts of gastro in 19.5 months), he has excema as do most of my side does and my Mum has numerous allergies so I think that`s where it`s coming from, Matthew was eating solids from 5months, 1 week of age and was breastfed till he was 14 months and only stopped because he self weaned himself when I was 36 weeks pregnant with Adrian.

Sorry have to go Matthew`s trying to pull the modem out will bbl