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eczema baby, potential allergies, please advise about foods...

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ratfly · 13/08/2007 07:50

Hi. Ds is nearly 7 months. He has eczema, and through weaning we have found some things aggravate it - dairy (huge aggravation - going dairy free has transformed his eczema); banana (oddly enough - gave him nappy rash); peas and raspberry.

Just wondering if anyone knows of any potential issues with lettuce and cucumber as we eat a lot of salad, and it'd be nice for ds to join in...

I looked at the sequence for adding allergic foods on Aitch's blog, but according to that I shouldn't have added chicken yet, and he loves it.

also, what is the deal with celery - looked on baby jars to see what he can eat, and they warn about celery in one of them?!

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swerve · 20/08/2007 16:37

I asked about weaning when I saw my dermatologist (i have bad eczema and allergies to lots of things). She gave me a a list of foods that are more or less likely to cause a reaction (she also consults at gt ormond st). As follows, least likely to cause a problems: mashed carrot, swedes, turnips, green beens, parsnips, cabbage, broccoli, cauilflower, stewed apple or pear.

next group: moderate likelihood: potato, oats, wheat, rice, chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, pork, fish, tomatoes, citrus fruit, strawberries, raspberries, marmite, honey.

next: may cause severe reaction: cow's milk, goat's milk, cheese, yoghurt, eggs, kiwi fruit, peanuts, banana, avocado, peas, lentils.

She said introduce 1 food at at time, starting with first group. and not before 4 months, preferably 6 months

swerve · 20/08/2007 17:21

to continue (sorry - interrupted by nappy crisis). This makes a lot of sense to me as it followed the pattern of reactions I had to certain food. any fruit or veg you eat raw that had a skin that you ate, I reacted badly to. e.g raw apples, but cooked are ok. as for your question about salad, if it were me, i'd follow the skin principle (tomatoes raw no, peeled cucumber ok, salad leaf ok). but in order to watch for allergies, only introduce 1 new food every 3-4 days so that you can monitor the reaction and eliminate problems easily. If he hasn't reacted to chicken, then he should be ok with it from here on.

ratfly · 23/08/2007 13:07

Hadn't checked this thread for a while..
Thanks swerve! We have done everything on the first list, and quite a few things on the 2nd list.

I can see that the things he reacted to are on the 'severe' list. hmmm. Is he likely to grow out of it do you think? He had lentils yesterday, and his eczema is a bit worse (but not terrible), but he was also off-colour yesterday so that could make his eczema worse too.. Difficult isnt it?!

Can we assume that if it isn't on the list it is least likely to cause a reaction?

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