Breastfeeding - Does what I eat cause allergy in baby?

[Maggie198]

My first child is allergic to loads of foods, milk, eggs, nuts, peanuts, fish, peas, beans, pulses, yeast. Just had a new baby and am breastfeeding. Do I need to exclude likely allergenic foods from my diet?

Sounds like it would be awfully hard work to avoid all that ... .
Last time I read up on this it seemed like the evidence was pretty fuzzy either way. So you could inconveniece yourself hugely and not only might it not prevent allergy, it might even cause it (theory is that somehow the child gets underexposed).

But I don't know where latest research is, maybe someone else will inform us!?

My son also has multiple food allergies. As far as I know (from research and mostly own experience), even if you eliminate all those from your diet, you can not guarantee that traces of those things (or others he/she may be allergic to and yet unknown) are not passing through when bf. And you may be risking your health as well! I am also pregnant and plan to bf again. I am also not planning to eliminate things from my diet but rather try to have as much balanced/varied diet as possible and see how it goes (will try and be alert to any possible suspicious symptoms as I have a case for reference and if need be will have to move to hypoallergenic formula)..

I have sought advice from my specialist on this for my dd2 and he said that the latest research for peanut was that it didn't matter either way

Congratulations on your new baby by the way. Here's hoping he/she isn't allergic!