> My wife had hives during the first two months
> of her pregnancy.  My son (3 months old), {*filter*}-fed,
> now has the same symptoms.  She has been to a skin-specialist,
> but he has merely prescribed various medicines (one
> each visit as though by trial and error :-))

> Anti-histamines worked on both of them, but looks like
> becoming less effective.

> Are there other solutions?  Thanks.
> --
> Kiong Beng Kee
> Dept of Information Systems and Computer Science
> National University of Singapore
> Lower Kent Ridge Road, SINGAPORE 0511

uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland) writes:

>> My wife had hives during the first two months
>> of her pregnancy.  My son (3 months old), {*filter*}-fed,
>> now has the same symptoms.  She has been to a skin-specialist,
>> but he has merely prescribed various medicines (one
>> each visit as though by trial and error :-))

>> Anti-histamines worked on both of them, but looks like
>> becoming less effective.

>> Are there other solutions?  Thanks.

>  I agree with Steve that your wife is allergic to certain
>  food and the antibody (?) is being passed to your child.
>  Be very wary about nuts, especially peanut (including
>  peanut-oil, peanut-butter ..). It is very critical
>  to find out what cooking.net">food ingredients that your wife
>  is allergic to.
>  My eldest son is severely allergic to peanut, one
>  medical theory is that he was sensitized
>  to peanut when my wife was {*filter*}feeding/conceiving
>  him and eating a lot of peanut.

uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland) writes:
>  A pediatrician should be able to help.  Dealing with allergies
>is a common skill with pediatricians.