If anyone has any tips or personal experiences with dealing with this type allergy please share them! I know its gonna be a bit difficult to moniter everything she eats to ensure she doesn't ingest any peanut products.
Quoting Bmat:Oh my goodness! I am glad that you knew enough to get help, poor baby. I don't have this problem so can't offer any first hand suggestions other than as you say, watch everything she eats. Talk it over with her doctor, also.
My dd had a pretty serious peanut allergy when she was little.. everything you described if she so much as touched a plate that had PB smeared on it.
Rule number one for having kids with allergies -- Never be more than 30 seconds away from your benadryl! I have a bottle in the kitchen drawer, a bottle in the bathroom, a bottle in my bedside table, one in the glove box of the car and I keep a stash of those one dose spoons in my bag.
When she was 2-3 an encounter with a peanut meant downing a bottle of benadryl on our way to the hospital. Now, at almost 10 years old, it gives her a rash in her mouth and a belly ache, and we can avoid that if she takes a dose of benadryl as soon as she eats anything with PB.
I would be very careful with having her eat out. Most fast food have peanuts in house and they can accidently come in contact with other food.. Now you're going to have to be super Mom, watching out for peanut s in food and peanut oil. Keep her out of asian resturants because alot of time they use peanut oil. Good luck.
Avoid peanuts. I have a peanut allergy. At this age, it's pretty easy since you're there. She needs to be told to always ask what's in foods and for now, not to accept any food from anyone unless you say it's okay.
Personally, I think peanuts are so essential to life, I'd probably put my kid through the allergy-reduction and elimination program.
No child of mine could possibly survive a peanut allergy, though: I'm pretty sure there is peanut oil on every surface in the building!
Growth spurt?
- BrooklynsMom11
on Jul. 4, 2012 at 8:02 PM