Kids and Food Allergies...

Look at what’s in dry roasted peanuts.

It’s a ton of shite other than peanuts

Look up oral allergy syndrome. My daughter developed this seemingly out of the blue a few years ago. She’s on regular allergy meds now.

Yes. My 14 month old has an egg allergy. Ridiculous.

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His doctor has referred us to an allergist, but no telling when they will even get him in to figure this shite out.

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We did this. His advice was don't feed him eggs...no kidding.

They aren't going to do the prick testing on small kids. He'll prescribe you an epi pen and you'll get to live that hell.

I wish I had more comforting news but Allergist are about the most useless bunch out there. They can order blood tests for certain allergens

My youngest is allergic to seafood, strawberries and red dye. She learned to avoid seafood and anything red. She has kind of grown out if it and even eats crawfish and crab meat.

But, for years it was just as you described. Hives, rashes, welts and a kind of tingly feeling. Nothing life threatening but, scary nonetheless.

It took a while for us to identify it. We just kind of retraced it back to the first time it happened. It was at a crawfish boil.

This is rough as hell. My son is 7 and he had terrible dairy and soy allergies when he was a baby. We had to switch to $60/cans of formula, which ended up being close to $1,000 a month on formula alone. He finally outgrew that by around age 2/3 and we thought we were in the clear. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, he started breaking out in massive hives on 100% of his body and his eye and face would swell so much that he was unrecognizable. We tried elimination diets with no luck. We’ve taken him to Children’s Hospital ER probably five to seven times, had two endoscopy procedures to rule out celiac disease, countless appointments with the allergist, a few epi pen uses, and three allergy tests all over the past two years. Turned out to be a massive NSAID allergy and not foods at all. He’s a rambunctious little fart and is always getting stitches or breaking bones so we’d give him children’s Advil on a regular basis when things would happen and we just assumed it was an allergy to food that he was eating but it turned out to be Advil all along.

Sincerely, good luck. This is a bitch to figure out and it hurts like hell to know you have tried everything and still can’t figure out what’s hurting your child.



Edit: if you are in the Baton Rouge area, we use Dr. Adrianne Edmundson as his allergist/immunologist. I highly recommend her because she’s very knowledgeable, takes her time, and genuinely shows an interest in helping. Plus she’s very easy on the eyes. But seriously, she’s a fantastic doctor and is great with kids. I can’t recommend her enough.

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Could also be some weird rash...kids get weird random ailments all the time.

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Post viral rash is a thing. OP could be overreacting if his kid was just getting over a sickness.

Kids bodies react differently

My oldest would get really puffy eyes and lips during meal time. There were a few episodes of vomiting. We could never pinpoint what it was until he ate a bunch of eggs and then again when he had peanut butter toast. The latter was a much more intense reaction.

He was formally tested, and he obviously improved with avoidance. Thankfully, he grew out of the egg allergy. Also, he's never been noticeably sensitive to foods that "may have been processed on equipment" with his known allergens.

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Diamond can she eat things with eggs in it or just like scrambled eggs the no no? Just curious.

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Right now all eggs or egg products are a no-go. We have to clear everything from having egg protein.

They think he will grown out of it. Been a few months since we have given him egg.

We go to allergist in March where we'll do a monitored thing. We went did a test for egg allergen and it popped positive.

My kid is being deprived of my love for baked goods like donuts.