In a strange turn of events, my DS (age 6) has been eating gluten for a couple of weeks and in the last 5 days has had absolutely no flare up of his rash. I started him eating it again to get his rash to flare up so we can get a biopsy. We went on vacation to NYC for the long weekend and it was wonderful to let him eat what he wanted. I was expecting a flare up (as usual) but nothing...not an itch, not a blister. In facts his older open lesions are all almost completely dried and healing. His older closed lesions are now just smooth purple spots.
Of course I'm very happy for him to be comfortable (it's been over a year of this)....but just when I thought I'd figured it out, I'm thrown for a loop.
Does this sound like it's even possible that it's still DH? (derm said "mild case" not biopsied yet)
I have read that DH can come and go, but it hasn't been the case with my DS, until now. And really, he didn't eat just a bit of gluten. Over 4 days he had pizza, toast, a cookie, half a big pretzel, sandwiches! He was in heaven!
I'm thrilled if it isn't DH of course, but then there's the question of what the heck is it?