Allergic reactions

[dottybutterfly]

Can I ask what you or your child is allergic to, and what are the symptoms that you/child get? Tia x

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Why?

Dd has intolerance to dairy, and other allergies, we are trying her on new food each week and wondered the typical allergies and symptoms xx

My child is allergic to all dairy, eggs, sesame, all nuts, peanuts, peas and all pulses.

Symptoms can different each time, and range from a very sore mouth & hives, to full anaphylaxis. It's very unpredictable.

Have you had skin prick or blood tests done?

Cheese - huge blisters on contact (needing hospital care, can be life-threatening depending on location), anaphylaxis on ingestion with internal blistering.

Cashews and pistachios. Swelling of lips/face, terrible rash all over body, vomiting and diarrhoea. We carry an epipen as anyone with any sort of swelling reaction should.

I'm allergic to penicillin - total body rash, itching, swollen eyelids. It's horrible.

DC2 - apples - sore mouth. Used to be allergic to egg which gave a rash on contact.

My DS's lactose intolerance leaves him with severe constipation - so not something you can find out quickly. You have to include it in a diet for several weeks.

Thankyou for your replies, my dd had breathing difficulties, rash, bad nappy rash that wouldn't go, red eyes, that was on my breastmilk until I gave up dairy, she came up in hives with strawberries and a nappy rash ( rare for her nowadays ) with raspberries xx

I have a reaction to fragrances that you find in cheap cosmetics and moisturisers. I get a rash which comes up like a heat rash, so all fine when I'm not doing anything, as soon as I do the slightest bit of activity the rash comes up.

Have you looked at FODMAP? The app has been done by Monash University, and it lists the 6 short-chain carbohydrates which people can have chemical reactions to. They are intolerances rather than allergies, but they could also play a part?

The fodmaps are:

Fermentable - certain carbohydrates that remain undigested and ferment

Oligasaccharides - fructans and GOS

Disaccharides - lactose

Monosaccharides - Fructose

Polyols - Sorbitol & Mannitol

I was surprised to find that raspberries and blackberries had completely different things that you could react to - they just seem like they would be varieties of the same type of fruit to me!

My ds when smaller had a tomato allergy he would get a red blotchy face and then his eczema would flair up. He does react much to tomato products these days but I haven’t ever tried him on a fresh tomatoes.

Ds1 - dustmite allergy, chronic cough and exacerbates his Asthma. He also has a severe peanut allergy, (Anaphylaxis) Hives, swelling to face, mouth, airways and stomach ache are the main symptoms he has to have Epipens.

For some allergens it's wheezing, feeling like my throat is swelling, itchy chin (weird, I know), dry cough, general asthma-y stuff. For my cat it's runny nose, sneezing and sore, red, watery eyes.

Just reread that, I made it sound like my cat has an allergic reaction! She doesn't, that's me being possibly allergic to her