advice about peanut allergy

[imaginaryfriend]

Hi my dd (5) had an extreme allergic reaction to peanut butter in the sauce of a stew I made yesterday evening. Within 5 minutes of eating one forkful her lips swelled and her breathing became more and more noisy and laboured. She'd had a bit of a cough the day before and we thought she might be having an asthma attack at first (she has quite bad asthma) until we noticed her lips swell and her face redden. We called an ambulance and immediately at the hospital they said she was having anaphylactic reaction to something and gave her steroids, anti-histamines and an adrenaline jab. Within 15 mins of the jab she was breathing much better. She stayed in over night and has been discharged with an epipen, anti-histamines and a follow-up appointment with the allergy team.

I'm so shocked about the suddenness of it. And also that she should suddenly show up with a peanut allergy after having definitely come into contact with nuts in cakes / biscuits over her 5 years. She's never actually sat and eaten a bag of nuts as she doesn't like them but she must have encountered them. So why now?

And I'm left wondering if from now on I should avoid all nuts and all foods with traces of nuts (which she's been eating without a problem for years) ...

If anyone has help / advice / similar stories, please let me know?

Hi,I am new here but my daughter who is 3years old has been an anaphylactic gainst peanuts and tree nuts since Febuary and we are with Guys and St Thomas's they r fantastic.I have been reading this thread and just have to ley you know my experiences as I have done loads of research and trying to make a change regarding the way food is handled but what I have found out is Sainsburys is the best and Marks and spencers are the worst for nut traces in food,regarding treats look out for KINNERTON they make loads of Easter eggs,advent calenders etc which are all nut free you can find thm in Sainsburys.I also make my own bread.Another good brand is bakein boys which have there own website and now you can find some in sainsburys along with ITS NUTFREE for other goods such as b-day cakes etc which are brilliant.and just to end Guys told me anything which carry may contain traces of nuts to avoid as with the nut allergy your body can produce different strains of the nut allergy over night so good luck it does get easier and my daughter is fine to the situation where she always asks if something is safe to eat and we play spot the nut game around the supermarket where she reads the labels for nuts which i have written on cards o the fridge and we take them along to the shops with us so that she gets used to reading the labels and she recieves a treat for spotting the most nuts around the supermarket.any other advice let me know

good luck it will get easier and your child won't know the difference