Prawns??

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DS is 8.5 months old, feeding really well and likes to try new foods. When can I try him with cooked, peeled prawns?
DH has mild eczema, DS has very very mild baby eczema (more like allergic dermatitis)

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Hiya,
I think the advise for seafood is 2 (or even 3) years. We also have family history of eczema and are not gonna introduce prawns for a long while yet. Don't know if there is other advise out there????

I give my 10.5 month-old prawns and have done for a while, but I'm not sure if I should be. I think its one of the things that some children are allergic too. I figured its a good nutritious finger food for a little one but we don't have any allergies in the family.

I had a heated debate about peeled prawns the other day. dh told me to stop buying them because they are shipped to India to be peeled by hand like this!

So, I emailed Ocado who said this wasn't true at all ... they are done by machine.

Thanks - just had a look at familydoctor.com and they say wait till 12 months.

Just have to give him turkey twizzlers till then

"advice for seafood is 2" ???? what all seafood ? why ? is it an allergy thing or is it because we Brits can't be trusted to cook things properly without giving ourselves food poisoning ?

My mum gave ds prawn curry when he was 10 months old. He loved it, she changed the resulting nappies, and now at 5, prawns are still a big favourite. But I am not well-versed in when you SHOULD give which foods. I've done all sorts of things wrong.

Apart from the allergy issue (and some shellfish alergies can be quite spectacular) I don't think it's a not-cooking-properly issue - some of the food poisoning problems particularly associated with seafood are caused by toxins that can't be destroyed by cooking.
Often a problem that a healthy adult would shake off, eg D&V, can be more dangerous for a tiny... hence the advice to wait till later.

Annabel Karmel says 1 year for shellfish but all the food standards agency says is to avoid it for the first 6 months.

I dont think dd had prawns until she was a bit older but then she didnt like the texture and they got spat back out anyway!!

I never knew there were limits on seafood! I've always given mine it. They love prawns, salmon, crabsticks, tuna, cod etc.

My dp (works with food safety) says shellfish is fine if heated through thoroughly (less risk than cold) and I adopted this advice through pregnancy. Allergy is a potential issue - my mum can eat them but if she peels them her hands come out in a rash! I think I have avoided them till toddlerhood with my own kids.

PS don't listen to AK - she says honey is ok for babies and everyone else says 12 months as it has a tiny potential for food poisoning.

Mrs Badger - you are right, there are nasty toxins like paralytic shellfish something but everyone I know who works with environmental health says it is all down to your supplier and these things are more of an issue if you are on a tropical holiday and eating the local wild seafood. I think if you buy your prawns from tesco they are not likely to have seen any sea! (they have to eat other contaminated stuff that passes through the food chain).

you're spot on wildthing - am a microbiologist at heart and was taking the cautious line!

I developed what looked like a spontaneous sensitivity to bivalves a few years ago when even immaculately-sourced ones gave me terrible stomach upsets, so am wary of them myself, let alone for little ones. Prawns, on the other hand, I can eat by the plateful...

wherethewildthingsare, AK says 1 year for honey too (I have one of her books and it is on her website as well)