Food challenge

April was tested positive for shrimp last year, and the same this year. Dr. strongly recommended a food challenge since seafood could be 50/50, meaning the skin test could give false positive result. Therefore today Mommy brought April in for the 3-hours food challenge experiment.

Mommy bought about 10 cooked shrimps from Whole Food and brought them to the allergist office. The appt started 9am sharp. Here are the procedures:

1. Have April touch the shrimp with her bare hands
2. Wait 15 minutes, the nurse return to check for any allergic reaction and measure her oxygen level and heart beat
3. Rub the shrimp around April's mouth
4. Repeat step 2
5. Have April lick the shrimp
6. Repeat step 2
7. April had a small bite of the shrimp
8. Repeat step 2
9. April bite off half of the shrimp
10. Repeat step 2
11. April eat a whole shrimp
12. Repeat step 2

3 hours later, we knew that April could eat as many shrimp as she wants. She enjoyed the experiment and finished watching the movie, Alice in Wonderland on a 15 inch TV :)