Sigh.

Just when we get comfortable with the status quo of Bryce's food allergies something always pops up.

This time, it's sesame and cinnamon. As in, we suspect Bryce to be allergic to sesame and cinnamon.

Bryce is allowed from time to time to play in the pantry cupboard. He mostly rearranges the spices or plays in the potatoes or garlic, but this time he got a little busy. I think I was making dinner when this particular incident went down, so I was around but truthfully, not paying attention.

He managed to dump an entire container of cocoa powder out and mixed in it was the jar of sesame seeds. He's previously been unable to open the spice jars, so this is a new trick for him. Great. So I clean up the mess (no photos, i was too irritated at myself for not paying closer attention to him) and then I noticed them. The hives. The blotches. They had returned. While I suppose it could be the cocoa powder, it's more likely that the sesame caused the reaction. He got the Benadryl and a bath and he was fine. Sesame is a legume, and thusly, related to peanuts. This is an easy one to avoid.

Next up is cinnamon. He had an opportunity to do a craft at his weekly school which involved cinnamon in a scratch-n-sniff fashion. He took one sniff of that cinnamon and ran off. The rest of the kids shook cinnamon out in a gleeful frenzy. By the time his school session was over, he had hives. I gave him Benadryl and chalked it up to "rogue hives" which he gets occaisionally.

Two days later, I canned applesauce with my friend G. Two of the batches we made had cinnamon in them, both towards the end of the canning. Well, once again, Bryce ended up in hives. After ruling out the take-out Mexican we had for dinner and everything else, it came down to cinnamon. Inhaled cinnamon.

For now, we avoid both sesame and cinnamon which really is easy for someone who is already avoiding wheat. Sesame gets sprinkled on breads as does cinnamon. As for the cinnamon applesauce, it all went home with my friend G because we can't risk Bryce consuming any. We'll ask for testing at his next allergy visit in March.

Sigh.