Allergy Testing

We had the boys tested for a whole bunch of allergies yesterday, and the results were resoundingly negative.  I guess that’s a good thing, right?  Actually, David even had such a small reaction to the histamine sample that the allergist thought we must have given him antihistamines recently, which we haven’t.  So if he can’t even react to histamine, I wonder if that means he’s incapable of being allergic to anything?  In other words, it seems like even if his body were to produce histamine in reaction to something, he wouldn’t have any noticeable reaction to it.

Another strange thing we discovered by doing this test:  David is no longer reacting to (small) amounts of wheat.  We had originally wanted to do this testing in part because he was getting headaches every day that we went to Mass, even though he was only receiving a low-gluten host.  When we didn’t go to Mass, he didn’t get a headache, and when we did go he did get one.  It certainly seemed like something was up.  Anyway, for the allergy testing to be accurate, they said that David would need to have ingested at least a small amount of wheat the day before.  Since he seemed to be reacting to just a low-gluten host, we figured it didn’t need to be much, so I served baked potatoes with a hamburger gravy, and thickened the gravy with wheat flour.  I only used three tablespoons in the whole batch, so he probably ate about a teaspoon of wheat flour.  I fully expected him to get up the next morning with a headache, but he didn’t!  He looked like he felt fine the whole day, and when I asked him how he felt he said he was fine.  So I don’t know what’s up.  Thinking back, I don’t think he’s complained about headaches the last number of times we’ve been to Mass.  In fact, the point where it stopped roughly corresponds to the point where we told him our suspicions about what was happening.  So either he is hiding it from us for fear that he might not get to go to Communion anymore, or he prayed for and obtained a miracle for himself when we couldn’t.  It doesn’t seem like he could just be hiding it, because I didn’t tell him about the wheat flour in the gravy, so he wouldn’t have suspected that.  That leaves the other alternative.  The faith of a child!

On another note, the allergist commented on how well-behaved the boys were during their tests, and wished that we could bring them in to show other children how to behave.