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Blotchy skin when eating

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PinkParsnips · 17/05/2014 19:56

My dd is 6 months now and I'm just starting to wean her.

I've noticed that when I give her fruit both her temples instantly go very red, hot and blotchy. It doesn't bother her at all and goes about 10 mins later. It doesn't happen when I feed her savoury purees.

HV seemed a bit stumped and said as long as she didn't show any other signs of an allergy it should be fine but I'm just curious what it can be?

The same thing occasionally happens when she has a bottle (ff) but to a lesser extent but we always presumed it was the effort of sucking.

Had anyone had any experience of this?

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 17/05/2014 20:30

Seems a bit odd. Does she have any other symptoms?

TheBookofRuth · 17/05/2014 20:33

Happened the first few times DD had strawberries and hummus. She's fine with both now.

TheScience · 17/05/2014 20:35

Exactly this happened with DS1 - it seemed to be caused by apples and pears particularly. My HV was also stumped and said it wasn't possible to be allergic to apples and pears anyway Hmm but he grew out of it quite quickly anyway.

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PinkParsnips · 17/05/2014 21:03

Oh that's reassuring to know that it turned out to be nothing in both cases thanks!

No other symptoms at all. It's something about fruit/sugar/lactose I think though as I did an experiment today and gave her some of a pureed parsnip to start with which had no reaction and then gave her some of a 100% apple and banana fruit pouch after that and it came straight up.

Always the same place and size on each side, it's very odd!

The only other thing she's ever had is a weird hyper reaction to calpol but that's sugar free anyway so I just presumed it was the e numbers. No blotching with that though.

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SassyOlaf · 17/05/2014 21:07

My daughter gets this with certain sweets, (maoam sweets and curly wurlys), red and blotchy for about 10mins then nothing. I've been trying to keep a list and narrow down the ingredients to find a common one.
She's never had it from fruit though....

SassyOlaf · 17/05/2014 21:08

She's 6 though so much older...

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PinkParsnips · 17/05/2014 21:47

That's a good idea Sassy to keep a list, I think I'll do that too. So far it's been milk, peach, mango, apple and possibly banana (was mixed with apple so not sure).

When I first changed from bf to ff it used to happen at every bottle but then stopped, but now it's happening with the fruit I've noticed it's happening again occasionally with a bottle too.

Very strange! I'm just glad to hear that it won't necessarily turn into some bigger allergic reaction later on.

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