More fun with allergies

I have known for quite a while that child #4 is allergic to wheat.  Our house is, for the most part, gluten free.  We have sandwich bread and an occasional box of Cheerios but other than that it is either GF or nothing.  We have learned to live without French bread, fondue meals, biscuits, french toast and ordering in pizza.  This has been a struggle on some levels and nearly impossible on others.  But we have found the ways to make our favorite dishes (pizza, chicken pot pie etc.) with GF ingredients.  I am starting to work on a GF pie crust that works for everyone.  The apple pie for Thanksgiving wasn't it.  We'll keep working on it.

Post coconut milk filled meal.

For the past month or more little man has had what looks like the last vestiges of a bout with chicken pox.  He is always scratching his face and so the scabs come off and never really go away.  His forehead, temples and bridge of his nose are the worst.  In the last week it has been on his neck as well.  He doesn't have the breathing issues that come with wheat exposure.  I have been lobbying for about one year to get allergy testing done without success despite making my case before four separate allergist.
In the past month his behavior has been regressing.  He bit me during speech therapy two weeks ago.  It has been a long time since that has happened.  He has been wild.  The screaming at night upon waking started up again and his clingy, rough behavior resumed.  It is enough to make a sane person lose their marbles.  I am sure he feels the same way.
Last night, after dinner, his face looked terrible. His lips looked swollen and his cheeks red.  Upon reviewing dinner ingredients my husband exclaimed, "COCONUT!  It's the coconut!"  Yup, I have to agree.  I make scrambled eggs several times each week in coconut oil.  We make coconut rice (rice with coconut milk on it).  In the past two weeks we have had two curry dishes with coconut milk and peanut satays with coconut milk.  Nevermind the Halloween candy; Mounds, Almond Joy.
So, today we start with no coconut in anything.  Initial reading tells me that coconut is a contact allergy so it isn't the ingestion necessarily but the skin contact.  Since scrambled eggs never stay on your fork when you are two so must be eaten by hand and an itchy face must be scratched or rubbed it would make since that eggs in coconut oil would lead to allergic reactions on one's face.
In other wonderful news, those allergic to coconuts are sometimes also sensitive to walnuts and hazelnuts.  Maybe even all tree nuts.  Lovely.  We'll work on that too although I tend to think the number of almonds he ate the other day would have been the tipping point on that one so maybe not those.
Hopefully an elimination of coconut oil and coconut milk will give him some rest from the itchies and allow him to sleep through the night and also keep him from getting crazy.