Is this a peanut allergy?

[Anonymous]

My son started vomiting with nuts foods at that age.

Then he graduated to swelling in middle school, and at that point it was clear he needed to carry an Epipen.

Conclusion: this is a nut allergy. You need a good allergist. Be aware that over time the initial allergy has a good chance of extending to other nuts and seeds. To prevent that, you need to work with an allergist so that she eats small quantities of other nuts and seeds regularly. We did not know this, and my teen son cannot eat any nuts now and also reacts mildly to certain seeds. He eats sesame regularly to stave off a sesame allergy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds exactly like FPIES, food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome. Read up on this but def call your pediatrician. My daughter had it and peanut butter is a very, very common trigger food for FPIES kids. FPIES is pretty rare and our pediatrician didn’t know about it, so I had to diagnose our kid from Googling and then take her to a pediatric allergist myself. Dr. Sharma at Children’s is the best in the area. I highly recommend keeping a food diary and only introducing small bits of new foods, one per day, so to can figure out if your little one has any other trigger foods. That’s what we had to do. Often the severity of the reaction is proportionate to how much food the child ate. So if you give them a huge bowl of a new food and it’s a trigger, they can get quite sick. Main concern with FPIES is that severe reactions can lead to extreme dehydration and potentially shock, which mean you need to take your child to the ER. Milder reactions can be managed at home with fluids and a bit of Zofran (which is an absolute miracle drug). I recommend talking to your pediatrician, keep a good diary, only introduce one new food at a time, and see if they will give you Zofran to have at home. Good luck!

FPIES family here too that sees Sharma. Agree he is awesome!