1 year old boy with severe food allergy

[jeanreyes03]

My nephew has severe eczema and we have exhausted all resources.  He is 1 year old and is allergic to soy, dairy, wheat, oatmeal and several other foods that did not test positive with an allergy test.  He is under weight because of this.  He is also seeing a speech therapist because he isn't progessing at the rate he should be with speech (this could be completely unrelated).  I refuse to believe that my nephew is allergic to everything that he barely has enough nutrious choices. Any information, suggestions, specialists would be greatly appreciated.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
The only good thing I can tell is that the little one will outgrow this by age of 5 years, if not totally then to a great extent.  He needs to be under the care of an allergy specialist, undergo complete allergy testing and be under strict guidance of a nutrition exepert trained in childhood allergies.
Hope this helps. Take care!

[Lambanien]

Im not a specialist but you should get an MRI of the brain. It will tell you how his brain is developing and you will be able to see if theres any developmental problems that could be causing the slow progression in speech. Also he may not be digesting those foods because the are very complex in their molecular structures you can get enzymes that would digest milk wheat etc. so that he can gain the nutrients from the food.