When to introduce nuts to dairy/eggs allergic babies? conflicting advice

[eskimomama]

Hi all,

My DD (10 months) is allergic to eggs and dairy, but not to any nuts apart from hazelnut (slightly, but still) as confirmed by blood and skin prick tests.

The allergist today advised me to introduce nuts asap, so that "she can build immunity to them", especially as I'm still breastfeeding.
Waiting too long could potentially result in a new allergy he said....

However absolutely everywhere I read online, they say to wait "between 12 and 36 months" to introduce nuts to allergic children, otherwise it might trigger an allergic reaction....

My gut feeling tells me to trust the allergist on this one but I would welcome any thought on this!!

Thanks

anyone??

Our allergist said if you get a negative test for nuts "you pretty much need to feed them nuts because if you wait they might have developed an allergy to them"

I don't think anyone really knows the answer tbh.

Oh God, that's one of those confusing things where everybody says somehting else and nobody really knows. I'd go with what the doctor says. How about you eat the nuts, so she doesn't get the full dose? It def does go in the milk, as dd broke out horribly when I had anything nuts.

good idea about me eating the nuts first - however her eczema is back (probably just because of "the environment" the doctor said, ie not food related), so I wouldn't know for sure if it affected her. It shouldn't as she's just been tested for all nuts...

Try bathing her, then slathering vaseline on within 3 min. A week of that cleared my dd mostly up. After that I used vanicream as often as you can, and now she is flawless. btw, fairly sure ny dd's is entirely food related.