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If your Dh's brither had nut allergy would you eat nuts while PG??

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LadyTophamHatt · 04/07/2006 21:04

before someone makes afunny comment about it not affecting him if I eat them, I've already thought of that so ner!

No-one in my family has nut allergy, only BIL in Dh's has, his mum or dad didn't. BIL seem to be the rouge element in the nut allergy department.

Would you eat nuts or would you avoid them?

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nutcracker · 04/07/2006 21:05

Errrrrrm actually I don't know. I'd like to say yes I would but can just see myself going to take a bite and then getting paranoid and not, so probably no.

SoupDragon · 04/07/2006 21:06

I@d probably avoid them. I'm not a huge nut eater anyway so it wouldn't be a hardship.

What did yu do for the other 3 pregnancies?

SherlockLGJ · 04/07/2006 21:06

if his brither had an allergy I would be dubious...........

However if it was his brother I would be a bit more wary...........

Mercy · 04/07/2006 21:08

Did you avoid nuts in your other pregnancies?

From what yuo say I don't think it would be a problem. Bur I'm sure someone will prove me wrong!

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LadyTophamHatt · 04/07/2006 21:09

oh sherlock, you know I do typos...please ignore them like everyone else

With the others I think I mostly avoided them but we have an opened bag of cashews calling my name right now.

I've already eaten 2 handfuls....

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SoupDragon · 04/07/2006 21:09

What nuts are your BIL allergic to?

LeahE · 04/07/2006 21:10

I'd spend more time reading up on what the evidence actually was for eating them in pregnancy being a problem. Don't know what I'd do then as I haven't done that reading.

Mercy · 04/07/2006 21:10

I believe it's peanuts which should be avoided?

PrettyCandles · 04/07/2006 21:12

As no-one knows exactly how these allergies develop, I think I'd err on the side of over-caution and not eat nuts duirng pg in that case.

I worried that I was being OTT when weaning my two onto solids: I avoided glutens until at least 10m, wheat until I knew they tolerated oats, and until about 2y did my best to rotate their carbs so that they didn't have wheat more than 2 or 3 days running. Now I'm glad I did that, as this year we discovered that dh's father has coeliac, which can be genetic, and his specialist warned that FIL should tell his children so that they can be careful with their chidlren!

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LadyTophamHatt · 04/07/2006 21:13

IIRC he has allergies to various different ones...

Not extreme allergy as far as I know, but enough so that he avoids them

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mawbroon · 04/07/2006 22:23

I would avoid if it were me. Avoiding will do no harm, but you might feel guilty if you didn't avoid and then your LO had an allergy. Well, that's how my brain works anyway.

Tommy · 04/07/2006 22:47

I ate peanuts during my first pregnancy (before I knew I wasn't supposed to) then in my second I ate them quite happilt as neither DH nor I suffere from allergies.
Now you've just made me wonder whether I should have - my sister is allergic to nuts - didn't cross my mind at all. She is the only one in the 2 families who is though.

laudaud · 05/07/2006 08:50

article in this weeks New Scientist about peanut allergies. Government advise in the past was to avoid feeding children peanuts until they reach the age of three. New thinking which is being studied is to feed children lots of peanuts early on to develop immune system. No conclusive findings yet so this is probably no help at all!

laudaud · 05/07/2006 08:51

Avoiding nuts completely is pretty difficult as lots of foods may have traces of nuts. This is normally on the labelling but who out there reads all the small print?

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