When Abby was 10 months old, she tested positive to being allergic to eggs and wheat.

Well, wheat turned out to be a non-issue, thankfully, but eggs were a problem. Abby broke out with fairly severe rashes when ingesting products that contained even small amounts of egg, so no cake, no waffles, no pastas of certain kinds and we became food-label-reading dependent.

When we first moved to Colorado, Abby and I stayed with my parents for about 9 months. During this time, my mom discovered that Abby could tolerate organic eggs, but not regular ones.

My mom used a method called pendulum dowsing to discover this. A part of pendulum dowsing is "a therapy used to locate the underlying cause of bodily or emotional imbalance that leads to ailments and physical reactions such as allergies or disease." The more the method is practiced, the more accurate it is. My mom had been practicing dowsing for several years and have successfully helped members of our family with various ailments. She has a friend who's baby had a hopeless number of allergies and doctors were at a loss for what to do. My mom managed to identify all of his triggers and the child is now able to manage his allergies and lead a normal life. The key is that she is able to identify very specific triggers rather than the generic categories which the traditional allergy blood tests or skin-prick tests reveal.

So, we bought some organic eggs. Abby tried a few bites of egg whites and had no reaction. A few days later, we tried the whole egg. Again, no reaction! The experimenting continued and we carefully monitored Abby every time she ate eggs, but she never had a reaction at home.

Yet, Abby was still unable to handle regular eggs. Sometime during that winter, Abby was accidentally given regular egg noodles at daycare and she broke out in such a bad rash her teachers had to call me.

We talked to her pediatricians who couldn't understand why she could eat organic eggs but not regular ones. We did some online research and read that egg allergies can be outgrown and many kids do. So, we became determined to keep exposing Abby to organic eggs in hopes that her body will learn to eventually tolerate all types of eggs.

By the time we moved out of my parents house (Abby was almost 2 years old at this point), Abby could eat two whole organic eggs (probably more if we would let her) without any reaction AND was able to eat regular eggs straight up! What this meant was that she can handle regular eggs found in other products without a problem.

She now eats egg noodles regularly and is the biggest fan of pancakes. We still buy organic eggs and dairy at our house, but we have not had an egg-related allergy incident for almost a year and we let her eat eggs whenever we do.