First, cookies don’t bake long enough for the egg proteins to break down. The proteins need to be exposed to high temperatures for long enough that they break down so that the body doesn’t see them as an allergen. Clearly 10-12 minutes is not enough for Matthew.
Second, when trying new food at home, we need to feed Matthew one bite (as opposed to one cookie) like we do at the doctor’s office. That way he can tell us something does not feel right but hopefully he won’t have huge problems. If we had fed him only one bite, his mouth would have felt itchy fairly quickly like it did with the whole cookie, but the amount of egg that actually got to his tummy would have been significantly less and the resulting reaction probably would have been less as well.
He had a very unpleasant afternoon, but on the up side, he was never in a place where the Epipens became necessary. That in itself is a huge thing for us. It means his body is baby stepping in the right direction.
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