We had another meeting with the Kinesiologist on Saturday, armed with a crate full of lotions, potions and various other things to test Jasmine's resilience to. The main things we wanted testing were the hydrolysed milk and a couple of the creams we use daily.
We'd had suspicions that the milk was still proving a problem. I know the idea of being hydrolised is to break down the relevant dairy nasties within the milk to a level at which the immune system doesn't detect it as dairy, thereby not causing an antigen response. However, Jasmine was still getting very bloated which made for very uncomfortable intestinal areas where she would squirm for a lot of the night trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in.
I'll post the full results later, but there were some interesting observations, namely the hydroliyed milk wasn't good for her, and neither was the cream we've been using. There were a few other neutral and positive results but it isn't quite as simple as that...
Armed with our newfound knowledge of Jasmine's weakspots we approached her routine that evening a little differently. Evening primrose oil had shown itself to act in a positive manner towards Jasmine and accordingly we used this to rub into her legs, arms, chest, back and face. We also opted to immediately cease the hydrolised milk and start a course of rice milk (tested neutral). The worry with the rice milk is that it is defiecient in many of the nutrients that you would typically find in formula milk/cows milk, but this should not pose too much of an issue for a 2 weeks trial, especially considering Steph is cooking evey one of her meals from good healthy organic produce.
Jasmine went down fairly awkwardly, though we attributed this to a late night, an hour later than usual. 3 hours later she was still itching furiously and complaining heavily. This was not her normal itchiness throughout the night, she seemed in a lot of discomfort. Despite the 'positive' effect evening primrose oil is supposed to have on her I believe that this was the cause of her discomfort. We decided to give her a late night bath and a full scrub down, change all her bed clothes and start again with Aveeno and herb oil as we had the previous few nights. She was much, much calmer! We had also used a new 'gel' on the nape of her neck; Silver Shield Gel. Steph has her suspicions about this aswell and like the evening primrose oil, this was given a positive for Jasmine in the muscle testing.
Now I know to make the disctinction between what may be good for Jasmine internally, and what may react negatively on her skin. By the morning she was her normal chirpy self. The rice milk seemed to have no ill effect (she's had rice milk many times in the past with no suspicious behaviour, though the times we've used evening primrose oil on her face I've noticed excessive rubbing of her face afterwards, though previously I put this down to her being tired and the eczema on her face).
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