DD, CMP allergic, also other things. Big reaction to kiwi - anyone else?

[SilverScarf]

I didn't even know you could have a reaction to kiwi! Big shock when DD (2) reacted immediately and in the proceeding days to the kiwi she had.

She was diagnosed as CMP through blood tests at 10 months and has also reacted quite badly to peanut butter, has anyone else had similar reactions?

Ds (2) is allergic to all sorts (milk, eggs, soya, fish, nuts and kiwi). His kiwi reaction was instant, he screamed and complained of tummy pains then was violently sick! It was quite scary actually especially as I was actually worried at one point he might be struggling to breathe. According to the NHS website he actually had a classic reaction . Needless to say I've not tried it again! We've never actually given nuts, just relying on the blood tests for that diagnosis, but everything else we've seen reactions to.

Luckily kiwi isn't the hardest thing to avoid

No, thankfully! I was just very surprised. She wasn't sick, just immediate hives and then her eczema flared up badly. She has had awful nappies too.

She had the same reaction to peanut butter so we are holding off on that until we meet with the consultant again in May, I guess we add kiwi to that list too. Does that mean she's likely to react to anything else?

Your poor DS, that's quite a list . Very scary reaction too, it must be hard on you.

DS1 is allergic to CMP and also to kiwifruit. Was allergic to egg white but grew out of that by about 2 (now aged 7). His test results show he's no longer allergic to kiwifruit but we put some juice around his lips and it went red so we haven't been keen to try - plus he is doing a milk desensitisation programme (now up to 50 ml a day, having started at 0.75 a year ago) so we don't want to distort the results by risking a reaction to something different.

Good thing about kiwifruit allergy is that it is easy to avoid them, you just have to be careful about juices but mostly they are not concealed in heaps of other products like cow's milk and peanuts are!

Just a note of caution that kiwi allergy can be linked to latex allergy and other foods such as banana and avocado.

Half my family it seems (me, my mum, my nephew and now my ds1) are all allergic to kiwi. Ds1 is also allergic to peanuts and celery, I am allergic to shellfish (plus lots of environmental allergies) and my mum to peppers.

None of us have any of the usual kiwi-related allergies and tbh kiwi allergy in itself is very easy to deal with as it is in virtually nothing -fruit salads and v. occasionally smoothies. And sometimes a slice on fancy cakes. But if you have to be allergic to something I would recommend it .

All those posters who have had allergies diagnosed, how did you get this done? My dd has a dairy intolerance and query re soya/gluten/wheat intolerances but we have been told by our gp that there is no test to confirm or deny these things - any ideas please? Sorry for hijacking your post Silver - hope your dd is ok.

Thanks everyone, she ever only took one bite of a banana and would never eat them again.
No it's not too bad of an allergy, I was more concerned that there was something else I might not have thought of!

CocktailQueen, the consultant DD is under did blood tests for CMP. I believe lots of other parents on here have had tests for allergies too. Our GP wasn't very helpful, we are very lucky to have a good consultant.

CocktailQueen, there is a difference between allergy and intolerance - an allergy is an immune system response which leaves markers in the blood, hence the blood tests to identify allergies. An intolerance is not an immune reaction and thus you can't use the same blood test to identify it. To be honest, even the blood test is not 100% reliable for allergies, eg ds came up as allergic to wheat and all fish, but he has no problems with wheat (phew!) and can eat salmon, so there is an element of trial and error!

Ekka thank you.
Silverscarf - thank you too!

You can do hydrogen breath tests for dairy, fructose and sucrose intolerance - perhaps others, i'm not sure as DS wasn't tested for anything else. Quite simple - fast over night, base line hydrogen taken, glass of offending substance given orally, hydrogen levels recorded like taking a breathalyser, spikes noted.
DS never liked fruit - always tried to avoid it, but would eat veg fine. He used to vomit frequently after eating some fruit products, even though he liked the look of them (banoffee pie etc). Turned out he was very intolerant to banana - and fructose generally. Often fructose and sucrose go hand in hand. Its the breaking down complex sugars into simple ones that absorb readily. Fruit naturally has these complex sugars. Could be worth investigating if kiwi is already an issue.

DS1 is allergic to milk, egg and nuts. He is 10 now (so things may have changed) but when diagnosed as a baby I was told to keep him away from kiwi as allergies to it were dramatically rising, they said it was "the new peanut allergy."

So it is a fairly common one, sadly.