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Yeah we gave our 6 month old peanut butter and ended up in hospital. This happened during the Covid lockdowns so it was quite scary. The recommendation here is

Yeah we gave our 6 month old peanut butter and ended up in hospital. This happened during the Covid lockdowns so it was quite scary. The recommendation here is to give them the food and see if they are allergic. I'm not sure I would follow that guideline again.

yread 4y ago
Same here, started with peanut butter and egg for a 4 month old. Now has allergies for both. I guess it works across populations. Or the research is wrong
- wil421 4y ago
  I have 3 kids 3 and under, no twins. We did a similar thing around 5-6 months. They hate eggs with a passion but no allergies. About to start the peanut butter trials with my 5 month old. We did the same with shrimp and oysters. My son loves seafood gumbo and made a whole restaurant turn around when he first tried it. He loves it. Have you stopped trying allergic foods?
itronitron 4y ago
Yeah, I think there is some other factor that is driving the increase in incidence of peanut allergies. Wife eating peanut butter while nursing doesn't seem to have prevented our oldest child from having a severe peanut allergy. edit--> didn't expect to be downvoted for this comment, lol
weberer 4y ago
Nowadays your doctor can just take a small blood sample and run a battery of allergy tests on that.
- LesZedCB 4y ago
  blood tests aren't very reliable like that. i have been with my partner to the immunologist many times over the years and observed skin prick tests and seen blood test results and watched her get epipen'd after a bad prick test. she will go into anaphylaxis if you wear a jacket you brought to somebody's house who has a cat. her blood work says the IgE count is fairly low. they can indicate more testing should be done, but they aren't perfect. neither are skin prick tests. i can dig up some of her reddit comments about it if you're interested.
  - CadmiumYellow 4y ago
    I had a bunch of allergy blood tests after having an allergic reaction to kiwi fruit. My results came back "severely allergic" to almond and sesame, both of which I have eaten all my life with zero issues. No antibodies to any of the pollen I am actually allergic to or to kiwi. I didn't show any allergies to anything when they gave me a skin prick test either, despite having had hay fever my entire life, which was ultimately the cause of the kiwi allergy via oral allergy syndrome. The doctor basically shrugged and told me "allergy testing is more of an art than a science."
- Balgair 4y ago
  IgG and skin prick test have a ~10% false negative rate and a ~50% false positive rate. You have to work really hard with a really good allergist to get reliable results.
- QIYGT 4y ago
  I don't think that's common. Our pediatrician, who is part of a US major hospital, never mentioned this and basically said "introduce new foods on days without much going on in case you need to go to the ER."

yread 4y ago

Same here, started with peanut butter and egg for a 4 month old. Now has allergies for both. I guess it works across populations. Or the research is wrong

wil421 4y ago
I have 3 kids 3 and under, no twins. We did a similar thing around 5-6 months. They hate eggs with a passion but no allergies. About to start the peanut butter trials with my 5 month old. We did the same with shrimp and oysters. My son loves seafood gumbo and made a whole restaurant turn around when he first tried it. He loves it. Have you stopped trying allergic foods?

itronitron 4y ago

Yeah, I think there is some other factor that is driving the increase in incidence of peanut allergies. Wife eating peanut butter while nursing doesn't seem to have prevented our oldest child from having a severe peanut allergy. edit--> didn't expect to be downvoted for this comment, lol

weberer 4y ago

Nowadays your doctor can just take a small blood sample and run a battery of allergy tests on that.

LesZedCB 4y ago
blood tests aren't very reliable like that. i have been with my partner to the immunologist many times over the years and observed skin prick tests and seen blood test results and watched her get epipen'd after a bad prick test. she will go into anaphylaxis if you wear a jacket you brought to somebody's house who has a cat. her blood work says the IgE count is fairly low. they can indicate more testing should be done, but they aren't perfect. neither are skin prick tests. i can dig up some of her reddit comments about it if you're interested.
- CadmiumYellow 4y ago
  I had a bunch of allergy blood tests after having an allergic reaction to kiwi fruit. My results came back "severely allergic" to almond and sesame, both of which I have eaten all my life with zero issues. No antibodies to any of the pollen I am actually allergic to or to kiwi. I didn't show any allergies to anything when they gave me a skin prick test either, despite having had hay fever my entire life, which was ultimately the cause of the kiwi allergy via oral allergy syndrome. The doctor basically shrugged and told me "allergy testing is more of an art than a science."
Balgair 4y ago
IgG and skin prick test have a ~10% false negative rate and a ~50% false positive rate. You have to work really hard with a really good allergist to get reliable results.
QIYGT 4y ago
I don't think that's common. Our pediatrician, who is part of a US major hospital, never mentioned this and basically said "introduce new foods on days without much going on in case you need to go to the ER."