Peanut and ashtma advice please.

[meely]

Hi
My Ds is 2 & 8mnths. He has never been diagnosed with Asthma but was in special care @ birth with breathing difficulties and was treated in A&E (one very scary night) for what turned out to be a viral wheeze, they did give him streroids and and inhaler then. He also had a bit of baby excema. I will get to the point... honest ! The problem is that my DH has asthma. I avoided peanuts when pregnant and Ds has never had them. He is rapidly approaching nursery age (sob) and if he is going to have an alergic reaction to peanuts i would rather it was while he was at home with me (5 mins away from hospital) then at nursery or worse. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks. Sorry for rambling but this is my first ever post.

[meely]

ps - sorry for awful spelling of Asthma in title!

[logans_mum]

Sorry I don't have any advice but I'll be interested to hear what people say. My sister has allergies to peanuts, kiwis, latex, cats & pennicillin and also has asthma & various other members of my family have asthma & animal allergies. Logan has eczema and I worry whether he will have any of the other conditions. Hubby & I are not allergic to anything that we know of and I avoided peanuts while pregnant.

I don't know whether I should never let Logan have nut products just incase or try him with some peanut butter to check (maybe waiting outside hospital!). My sister choked on a peanut when she was very little (around 3 years) and had an immediate severe allergic reaction but luckily they got her to hospital on time as her tongue swelled up. Very scary so I wouldn't want to go through the same! So I completely understand your fears. xo

[dtlyme]

Can you take him in for a prick test? An allergist would do this. They take minuscule amounts of the top allergens (peanuts included) and do tiny pricks onto your child's back. You wait 15 minutes and they measure and see if any of the pricks become large bumps. If any are positive they would then send you for blood tests to determine severity of allergy.

Otherwise ask your pediatrician if you can give him some peanut butter at his next appointment or something. They would have epi pens on hand in case of severe reaction.

Good luck.

[noababy]

Hi!

You should see an allergist.

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[jules06]

Originally Posted by Logan s Mum

Sorry I don't have any advice but I'll be interested to hear what people say. My sister has allergies to peanuts, kiwis, latex, cats & pennicillin and also has asthma & various other members of my family have asthma & animal allergies. Logan has eczema and I worry whether he will have any of the other conditions. Hubby & I are not allergic to anything that we know of and I avoided peanuts while pregnant.

I don't know whether I should never let Logan have nut products just incase or try him with some peanut butter to check (maybe waiting outside hospital!). My sister choked on a peanut when she was very little (around 3 years) and had an immediate severe allergic reaction but luckily they got her to hospital on time as her tongue swelled up. Very scary so I wouldn't want to go through the same! So I completely understand your fears. xo

Hi Logans Mum I wrote a post on the old site asking about anyone with a latex allergy because its linked with a whole host of foods including kiwi fruits, so interesting to find someone.

[jules06]

Hi Meely, I would discuss this with your gp and see if they will do tests.

Anyone who has a tendency towards allergies especially with nuts or that has family members who have allergies such as nuts, should discuss this with their gp.

There are some really good web sites I can recommend that give far more details but if your lo is not allergic to nuts then I wouldn't go worrying unecessarily as you could worry yourself when you don't need to.

Just going to quote this from a post on Net Doctors because it gives a lot of details that are interesting with regard to nuts.

QUOTE:

As many as 1 in 75 children in the UK will have some kind of allergic reaction to nuts. If the reaction is mild they may experience only tingling in the mouth, a localised rash or hives, a runny nose or some nausea and mild sickness after eating nuts.

Anaphylaxis is a more serious allergic reaction that may cause swelling of the lips, eyelids or face, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting, hives anywhere on the body, breathing difficulties, a drop in blood pressure causing sudden weakness or dizziness, collapse and even unconsciousness.

Some people are allergic to all kinds of nuts, others only to specific nuts. It might be an allergy to brazil nuts but not to peanuts.

People are not born with an allergy and do not develop an allergic reaction the first time they eat a particular food. The body must produce antibodies to the food which then cause a reaction at some later date when the food is eaten again.But because traces of foods are found within other foods, eg nuts in chocolate, you may not be aware of the first time you came into contact with a particular allergen.


Allergic reactions to nuts can be quite unpredictable. Initially a person may have only very mild reactions after eating nuts but then suddenly develop severe anaphylaxis after further exposure.

Annabel has a lot of information regarding allergies on this site if you do a search.

Hope this helps

[logans_mum]

Originally Posted by jules06

Hi Logans Mum I wrote a post on the old site asking about anyone with a latex allergy because its linked with a whole host of foods including kiwi fruits, so interesting to find someone.

That's interesting to find someone else! She found out she was allergic to latex through using rubber gloves! If she ever has to go to hospital she has to let them know she has latex allergy as well as pennicillin! She gets a slight reaction to strawberries too! Very strange that she has all these allergies and her (non-identical) twin brother has none!

[jules06]

Hi Logan's Mum.. I don't have a latex allergy, I came across the link when I was doing some research about the reaction some children have to eating avocados and came across a possible link with a group of food/ products that can include latex allergy... our bodies are weird how they react sometimes

[logans_mum]

Just back from the Docs with Logie, he got two more jabs, poor boy but that's him now til he's two!

Anyway, I got hubby to ask about the peanut allergy thing and the Doc says it's not hereditary. Also peanut is not a nut its a bean and if you have an allergy to peanuts it doesn't mean you will be allergic to nuts! So we are to give Logie peanut products now - like smooth peanut butter. Apparently it is best to give them at this age to find out whether an allergy will develop. He said you are not born with the allergy, you develop it! He also said that is unlikely to cause a reaction the first time its eaten and is usually the third occasion that you will get a reaction if any at all.

I would be interested to hear what you all think of this? Maybe this is the general opinion in Germany but not the UK? The doc said that we can now give Logie everything we eat but make sure egg is well cooked. The only exception is fish if we don't eat much fish ourselves! We don't and I ate very little while pregnant with him. Apparently it can be hard for a baby to digest if he hasn't been exposed to it before birth! We have to wait til he's a bit older before he can have fish! Never heard that before, has anyone else? xo

Btw please no one go by this advice, ask your own doctor before taking any action!