1 year old allergic to what feels like everything!

[Mammaof2girls]

Hi,
My 1 year old is allergic to, Nuts, Egg, Milk, Soya, Strawberries, Tomato, Rapeseed oil and we are currently waiting on the blood test results for other foods. Does anyone have any advice and tips on feeding a child with multiple allergies? Any known websites for recipes would be great. Really struggling with mum guilt i worry she doesn’t get enough variety but I struggle to find foods that don’t have her known allergints in them.

Hi its a horrible place to be when so many foods are dangerous.
My dd had contact reactions and anaphylactis to wheat, dairy, egg, Sesame, soya, salmon, kiwi, beef, pulses, banana.
she had so many reactions her throat was damaged and she was unable to swallow anything other than breast milk and neocate spoon til she was 14 months.
She is now 6 and still has a restricted diet but is thriving, fit and healthy.

My main advice would be to ignore everyone else! Do not compare other peoples babies diets to yours.

No need for mum guilt. You are keeping her safe. Be proud.

Do skin test with every new food. give her tried and tested foods and add things very very slowly.
document everything. to try and spot patterns as she is likely to have intolerances with less dramatic reactions.

I used the pig in the kitchen website and recipes a lot.

I spoke to our local soft play and they let us in an hour early on the day after a deep clean so she could play without worry of touching a smear of yoghurt

I took towels to cover the seat and handle of shopping trolleys following a dramatic reaction. imagine a child was munching on crisps on the way round and touched the handle.

there are a lot of foods that you can have that are not in the free from section, and lots you can do from scratch in bulk then freeze.

My daughter lived on wheat free pasta, ham and olives for a very long time!

It is so daunting. She doesn't need a huge variety. As long as she is safe and healthy that is good enough. x

Hi
Thanks for replying. It’s all very daunting at the moment but I hope I can get the hang of it and get her thriving, we tried oatmilk and cereal out of the free from aisle today and she had a terrible reaction it seems like anything shop bought she reacts too! I will look up that website thank you :)

Oh goodness. So sorry that she had a reaction today. Are you in hospital now?
Has she had Oatmilk before or do you think it was the cereal? Do you have a good consultant and dietician?
We found Koko one of the best milks.
also oatly cream was useful for adding calories.
I used a lot of coconut oil in cooking and making sweet treats as an effective way to increase calories.
I used orgram egg replacer which was really good in most recipes.
I hope she is feeling much better soon.

No we managed to get everything under control without the need of the Epipen or a hospital trip luckily, she came out in hives, she claws at her skin she doesn’t understand what’s happening. Her eyes and lips swelled up after only a few tiny mouthfuls it always happens so quickly and it takes ages to calm her back down she really struggles with it, she’s hysterical like she’s in excruciating pain, it my heart breaks every time. She hasn’t had the oatmilk or that cereal before but her dietitian suggested the oatmilk so I’m going to try the cereal again with neocate I suspect it was the oatmilk that set her off. She’s allergic to coconut unfortunately so that’s another thing we avoid and almond so that rules out those milks and soya milk so back to neocate for now. She’s under an allergy specialist, skin specialist aswell as the dietitian so we have a fair amount of advise given but I sometimes think one professional contradicts the other, her HV told me I give her too much neocate so I cut it down and now her dietitian said she doesn’t get enough!

Unless you HV is specially trsined in children with multiple allergies, I take most of her advice with a huge pinch of salt.

As for new foods, could you introduce them one st a time instead of both together? This may help you find which foods she reacts to more quickly

Mamma, my ds was allergic to dairy,soy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat (and barley etc), corn, legumes and gourds. We found a few recipes that worked; a Moroccan lamb with substitutes, and a puréed sauce to put on pasta or rice (with the veg he could eat, plus meat; basically a ragu), batch cooked them each weekend and ate it all the time, with either rice or rice pasta. Breakfast was either brown rice puffs or porridge or a bread I made myself (which I didn’t think was very nice but he didn’t know any better). When we went out he basically ate a piece of grilled fish and possible some chips if they were suitable. He is now a thriving 6 year old and only allergic to wheat and tree/ peanuts (tho we still need the epipen).

I made my own recipe book of ideas because it used to be so dispiriting to cook... homemade fish cakes and fried rice were winners with all the kids, and finding a source of even one food he could eat was always a joy. Venice bakery did a pizza base which we used like normal bread sometimes (ie for toast as well as for pizzas).