Allergies in babies

Quality

Well my baby has been exclusively breast fed never has he had formula.
I started to wean him a month ago, and he has been brilliant, he has had a good mix of fruit and veg, baby rice and recently banana porridge for breakfast.

Tried him with a little petit filous tonight just a taste, he didn't like it at all, started to spit it out, I thought at 1st it was because of it being cooler, but then he broke out in a rash around his mouth, poor thing.

Anyone else have similar problems or kids with allergies?

Deliverance

Fed my baby eggs when she first started eating solids. Within an hour or so her left ear swelled up to twice it's normal size!! We took her to the doctor immediately and he assured us that she was ok but he made an appointment for us to see an allergy specialist at the hospital.

This went really well and the staff and doctors at the hospital performed controlled ingestion of eggs and monitored the little one as she ate the eggs in increasingg amounts, plus they had anti allergy serum standing by in case of the very unlikely event of a severe reaction.

It was a good experience and the doctors were v.reasuring. I think the whole process actually helped their medical research as well so it wasn't like we were overprotective parents being a burden on the health service.

Maybe you should speak to your doctor about having your baby take an allergy test if you have any concerns about it?

Ps: the allergy to eggs has long since dissappeared.

O'Coonassa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20774622

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

Kids immune systems are messing up. Auto-immunity and allergies are on the rise since the 60's. Let them have dirt lol

Quality

Thanks deliverence, I am hoping it is not too serious and hopefully I was just being a bit too early introducing petit filous.

No history of allergies in our families or with our other 2 kids. I will bring him to the doc next week and see what the next step is...

Gyalist

Quality wrote: »

Anyone else have similar problems or kids with allergies?

Yes. one kid allergic to: cats, dogs, horses, nuts. Used to be allergic to cow's milk and eggs but not any longer.

Quality wrote: »

No history of allergies in our families or with our other 2 kids. I will bring him to the doc next week and see what the next step is...

Hopefully it isn't too serious. I'd try to see an allergy specialist just to put my mind at ease.

Quality

Gyalist wrote: »

Yes. one kid allergic to: cats, dogs, horses, nuts. Used to be allergic to cow's milk and eggs but not any longer.



Hopefully it isn't too serious. I'd try to see an allergy specialist just to put my mind at ease.

Thats a lot of allergies!!:eek:


I was at the doctor today, So he is going to refer us to a paediatrician and dietician, I am to assume that baby is allergic to dairy.

PinkTulips

dd is cow's milk and wheat intolerant, she's 4 and the cow's milk is very mild but the wheat is slightly more severe.

neither are allergies as such, they affect her digestive system and give her diarhea and flare up her eczema (none existent the rest of the time). if she consistantly eats wheat she stops absorbing any other food, from 12 months to 22 months she gained no weight at all, when she was taken off wheat at 22 months she gained 2 kgs in 2 months

despite weaning my older son for allergies he was also cow's milk intolerant but at 2.6 he grew out of it so the careful weaning did prevent as much damage being done to him.

the hospital and dieticians have told me to keep my daughter wheat free in the hope she'll grow out of it, generally most grow out of it by 3, the few that don't then by 5 and almost all of the remaining by 8. we're hoping by 5 obviously at this stage. it's looking good, last time we tested her there wasn't as immediate a reaction.

be warned, don't give soya products instead, kids allergic to milk are very likely to develope a reaction to soya too. try him on goats milk, chances are he's allergic to the lactose in which case he won't tolerate that either but you could be lucky and find it's the casein in milk that affects him in which case goats milk will be fine.

also, make sure it is the milk... dab a bit of cows milk on his skin and see if he reacts, rash reactions are rare for cow's milk, it's usually vomiting, swelling, diarhea type reactions so it may have been something else in the fromage frais... was it strawberry flavoured by any chance?

Quality

It was strawberry... I am hoping it is the strawberries rather than the dairy!! I have heard they can cause a reaction.

Still waiting on doctor to come back to me!!

metrovelvet

Quality wrote: »

Well my baby has been exclusively breast fed never has he had formula.
I started to wean him a month ago, and he has been brilliant, he has had a good mix of fruit and veg, baby rice and recently banana porridge for breakfast.

Tried him with a little petit filous tonight just a taste, he didn't like it at all, started to spit it out, I thought at 1st it was because of it being cooler, but then he broke out in a rash around his mouth, poor thing.

Anyone else have similar problems or kids with allergies?

Petit filous is both rich and with a high sugar content. Maybe try an organic vanilla yogurt. A teaspoon or so.

CJhaughey

My son now 4 was also breastfed and never touched formula, he has a severe peanut allergy. How he got it I don't know.
My wife and I are not allergic to nuts, and to the poster who recommended that kids have dirt, well we lived on a farm at that point and he was constantly playing in dirt.
Anaphylaxis is on the rise but who knows why?
We were put on a waiting list when he 1.5 yrs to be allergy tested, the wait was something like 12mths, so we went to Harley st in London and paid for an allergy test which was around 120stg or so, that how we found what he was allergic to.
I would get your child tested if you can afford it as he may have reacted to a trace of something in the yogurt.
We have to carry those anapens/epipens with us all the time in case of emergency.

PinkTulips

dp has asthma so i was very careful... i breastfed both older kids for 12 and 30 months respectively, introduced allergy foods later, blw my son and exclusively bf him until almost 6 months (would have waited til the 6 months but he stole food!)... although my son's intolerances were far less severe than my daughters and he grew out of them quicker he still developed intolerances.

breatfeeding helps, as does careful weaning but i don't think it can prevent allergies or intolerances caused by dodgy genetics