Milk allergy

Our little monkey apparently has a milk allergy. Well, intolerance, whatever. She breaks out in a rash. Anyway, the story goes thus:

1. the monkey had a bout of laryngitis;
2. we were on the move a lot - down to the farm, holiday in Anglesea and then Lorne and then Ballarat, plus her immunisations in there somewhere;
3. she lost a bit of weight;
4. everyone kept saying how little she was; and then
5. we gave her a bottle of formula.

Well. Three hours later the vomit started. And didn't stop until all she could get out was dribble. I sat up with her all night. Poor little monkey. She was still cheery though.

24-36 hours later the rash came up. And it's a really weird rash. Kind of hard, like her entire body had gone bumpy. Started on her face and then moved down her body. We were in Ballarat so took her to one of those super clinics and waited to see a GP. He had some kind of weird eye issue going on, like a really bad rash himself so I wasn't keen on having him touch our little monkey. Anyway, he said it was likely to be the milk.

The itching began. Rachel has always had fantastic little nails, needing trimming daily. So they were perfect for her to attempt to peel her own skin off. Then we discovered Farex has milk in it, so had to remove that from her diet. A trip back to our own regular GP clinic provided us with a tube of cortisone.

And eventually the rash dissipated. It's still there a bit, under her chin, where the constant dribble out of her mouth seems to keep things nice and damp.