Apraxic son might now have a dairy allergy.

February 23, 2010

After almost a year of trying to find out what is happening with my 3 year old,

now our speech therapist is deciding that he has apraxia, not autism like the

school board assumed. She has also mentioned that he might have limb apraxia

since he will not learn sign language. Our OT therapist disagrees though and

insists on mild sensory issues. So confusing..

Now we are realizing that he might have an allergy because his nose is always

running and he has always had bad skin problems - redness on the back of his

knees and small red itchy bumps and dry patches on his back and stomach. Our

pediatrician always said that it was just dry skin and she gave him a

prescription for lipocream every year. We have to treat it everyday or he gets

so itchy that it drives him crazy.

Our therapist said that the body craves what it should not have - he is obsessed

with string cheese and cheese cubes and cries for it all day..

We remember him spitting up so much as a baby and asking our pediatrician if he

should be on soy - she told us that we should not change formulas unless he was

starting to loose weight.

We have an appointment with a doctor in a few weeks that both therapists

recommend. I cannot believe that this is just being realized now at age 3! How

can we even think about taking away milk, cheese, ice cream, mac and cheese,

pizza - all of his favorite things. And he has a brother and sister who live on

yogurt and cheese and mac and cheese.

Has anyone else had to deal with this? Any advice would be helpful.

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