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Peanut allergy

Peanut allergy

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by: N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 12:51pm  
Anybodies kids have it? I gave my DD peanut butter for the first time today and a few hours later her ears are red and she seems itchy. No breathing problems.
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 12:56pm  
What's weird is that a peanut allergy was virtually unheard of 20 or 30 years ago. 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 12:58pm  
What's weird is that a peanut allergy was virtually unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.
 
@WskyTngoFxtrt:
Yes it was heard of. In the 70's and 80's . 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 12:59pm  
They say to wait till they are around 3 before trying but I made a jelly only sandwich for my daughter and a P and J for me when she was about 18 months old and the phone rang distracting me, and she had grabbed mine and was half way through before I noticed. This is how we found out she is NOT allergic.....LOL 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 1:07pm  
They say to wait till they are around 3 before trying but I made a jelly only sandwich for my daughter and a P and J for me when she was about 18 months old and the phone rang distracting me, and she had grabbed mine and was half way through before I noticed. This is how we found out she is NOT allergic.....LOL
 
@Burnsway:
The rules have changed. U can give as early as 12 months. 4951
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taramay Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 1:10pm  
i wouldn't give it to her again before talking to her dr about it. if she is allergic, her reaction the next time could be much worse.  4951
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~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 1:11pm  
I am not sure how old your daughter is but I assume 12 months? It's just something to be very careful with.
Also know that things can change as they get older. So if she is slightly allergic now, it could get better or worse.
My daughter used to get a rash from cinnamon but can now eat it just fine. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 1:12pm  
www.huffingtonpost.c om/glenn-d-braunstei n-md/peanut-allergie s_b_2885819.htm
A few points from the article
 
But self-reports of peanut allergies are rising. One study found that, between 1997 and 2002, the number of children with peanut allergies doubled, though reports did not increase among adults.
 
For a time, the hygiene hypothesis was at the forefront of possible explanations. That theory holds that our modern obsession with extreme cleanliness, including antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers, leave our children with fewer tools to fight off germs. Excessive cleanliness, experts reason, interrupts the normal development of the immune system, resulting in an increase in allergies.
 
And, as the New York Times Magazine reported recently, Stanford University researcher Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D., is experimenting with children who have multiple food allergies by desensitizing them simultaneously for all the foods they cannot tolerate, starting with even smaller microdoses. She's had considerable success, but even when children begin to tolerate foods that once threatened their lives, they must eat minimal amounts of the foods every day in order to maintain the tolerance. 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 1:53pm  
She might have an ear infection.  I will call the doc an make an appt. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 2:11pm  
We have "Fudged" up our food.  Wheat is no longer real wheat.  Corn is just sugar now etc.  All the modifications to our food supply are responsible for most food allergies.  Gluten/Wheat allergy/ intolerance is being recognized now as a huge issue.  Most people have some issue with it now to varying degrees.  They just don't realize it.  Wheat/ Gluten/ Barley/ Modified food starch could be responsible for many illnesses such as RA, Fibromialgia (SP?), congestion, anxiety/mood disorder, IBS, depression.  Not all people with theses and other issues are reacting to wheat but a lot of them are and don't know it.   Our food does cross the blood brain barrier.  The DW went to the doctor and they said she had RA but after only a week off of wheat/gluten her inflammation levels in her body dropped backed to normal in one area and significantly lower in the other test also.   She doesn't have RA.  Why isn't this news being spread?  The people doing the research don't have the funding because they are not a pharmaceutical company standing to make millions off of a drug used to treat the symptoms. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 3:58pm  
The main problem is that if one child has a peanut allergy, that means none of the kids at public school can eat peanuts. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 4:01pm  
Our daughter has an allergy to peanuts.  Her results were so high with blood testing that her nurse commented that she'd never seen one that high.  Our daughter, however, has never had to endure anaphylactic shock.  We keep Epi-pens close by, just in case of a more adverse reaction.  
 
Allergies change throughout our lives, and I would recommend a quick and easy test with an allergist to determine IF she has an allergy vs intolerance to foods. Keep Benadryl or anti-histamine near by, as it is your first defense.
 
As for her reactions, if she ingests peanuts, our daughter will vomit it up, which is a great defense mechanism.  She also will get red splotches on her face, especially around her mouth.
Hope this helps! 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Sep 23, '13 7:04pm  
The main problem is that if one child has a peanut allergy, that means none of the kids at public school can eat peanuts.
 
@fcabanski: Most schools are just peanut free in the class rooms but they have a special table for allergic kids in the cafeteria, I was told when my kid went to school, that the only time they could not have peanuts was at snack time  in the class room and that was only if they had a child allergic in that room(usually a sign on the door). Given that when I was in elementary we didn't even have a snack time I didn't see it too un reasonable to ask that of the parents for safety reasons.
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