DD has peanut allergy- how to introduce other nuts?

[amy1313]

Hi, my DD has a peanut allergy confirmed by skin prick test at the hospital. They also tested her for other nuts and she didn't react to those so was told that we can cautiously introduce them at home. My question is how to do this when every other nut product (e.g. almond butter) has "May contain peanuts" written on it?? Do I just take the risk or are there any peanut free nut products out there?
Any advice would be much appreciated!

Sadly this is the reality for peanut allergy sufferers. There's very few brands, if any, that are safe. I only know this from a relative with the allergy.

I have heard good things about sunflower seed butter as an alternative to peanut butter.

But if you want to test the other nuts just to diagnose then maybe try (a tiny bit of) the whole nut outside of anything else, at least then you can visually see there's no peanuts.

My DS is also allergic to peanuts. I only gave him foods that I had made myself, ie I'd put some in the food blender to make a paste, so he had "almond butter" or whatever the nut was. When he was old enough to understand, I gave him the talk about never eating any peanut product , and at 11 he is fine now. Any food that he doesn't know for sure, like a curry or a casserole, he'll taste a tiny bit and wait to see if he gets an itch on his face , then if he doesn't, he knows it's OK to eat it. Good luck.