13 month old nut allergy

[Jesusisking23]

Hello all

blood test has confirmed that DD does infact have a nut allergy (as I knew from seeing her reaction!). Shes allergic to peanuts and mixed nuts I think; so that she can’t eat them at all.

shes also had topical reactions to coconut oil but hasn’t ever eaten coconut.

we have a referral to an allergy clinic but its not until mid to late April and just wondering if anyone has any idea on how to navigate this?

she’s still breastfed a few times a day although I am trying to stop - does this mean I can’t eat anything nut related?

I have no experience dealing with allergies so any advice is welcome!

Many thanks!

My Ds was diagnosed at 7months.
I stopped eating peanuts as he was always with me and we stopped having any in the house at all so dh and I don’t have them either. It’s too much risk of contamination

For us I don’t feel comfortable eating them if I’m with Ds at all that day as I could have traces on my hands or breath. As I’m never more than a few hours away from him I just don’t eat them.

He has other allergies. Most the other food ones have disappeared as he’s got older. Environmental ones like grass, pollen, dogs seem to get worse each year

Im allergic to nuts. I know it's scary op, but in today's society there's more awareness and people are more understanding of needing to keep dc safe. It's really easy to be nut free

Yes cut out all nuts, tree nuts and coconut inc coconut oil and peanut oil when cooking

Also, for me, can't eat seafood, tree products like bananas as they cause an mild (but still distressing) allergic reaction

I wouldnt have nuts in the house at all. I find the smell of someone eating a snickers near me makes my throat itch, but that may just be conditioning, if that makes sense

xx

My son has a peanut allergy and he and his wife have a baby now. What's the best way to find out if their baby has an allergy?

My son has peanut allergy and it was discovered at 8 months old. When I'd eaten peanut butter bars before I knew this, it transferred through my breast milk and gave my son awful, painful rashes.

My son is now 2 and still breastfeeds. From the day we found out we completely removed peanut from our diets as a family and anything that "may contain" peanuts on packaging so that we know our house is completely safe. This was under the advice of a consultant.

Have you been prescribed epi pens?

Allergy tests don’t at a professional centre. They can be referred by nhs, and will be red skin prick AND IGE blood tests. Double blind testing is very important here.

If NHS is too slow Dr Fox in London is excellent.

What tests did she have done? They should have tested all tree nuts separately. If not she’s going to need that.

Has she been eating any tree nuts without reactions? The current advice is to continue eating those, but we waited for allergist to confirm.

The nuts she had reacted to and any she’s not tried - clear them out of the house. Including bird feed. Not a trace of them in anything she eats. If you are breastfeeding don’t eat them.

You will have to start reading ingredients religiously. It’s hard but becomes second nature after a while.

Have you been prescribed epipens? If not I’d go to GP and request them, and a bottle of cetirizine to give in cases of milder reactions. Must not be drowsy antihistamines.

Then get on anaphylaxis U.K. site and read everything you can

DH has an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and tree nuts and the GP basically shrugged when I asked about weaning DDs.

I did my own research and introduced all the allergens very carefully - I think a parent with an allergy increases the chance of the child having any allergy, not just the specific one the parent has. I gave each DD a tiny amount of peanut butter, and Nutella several days later. The research is that it's better to introduce sooner rather than later and to keep up exposure. So I give a small amount on the end of a spoon to each DD every couple of weeks. DH is obviously nowhere near any of this.

If they wanted to be sure, they'd have to pay for testing. The NHS won't do it.
My youngest started coming up with hive rashes every so often, and even with the family history the allergy clinic rejected the referral. Thankfully they seem to have stopped now, and we could never see any pattern between them and the food she was eating.