Is this a peanut allergy?

[Anonymous]

Hi there- we’ve been giving my 7 month old daughter a little peanut butter for the last month and the last two times she ate it, she vomited a couple times about 1.5 hours after eating it. She does not appear to have any skin or breathing reactions immediately after eating it or along with the vomiting. Is this a peanut allergy? It’s clearly a reaction to the peanuts (now that it happened two times in a row) but it seems odd that it is delayed and is not accompanied by anaphylactic responses (like hives or wheezing). Is there such a thing as peanut intolerance or sensitivity that’s different from a nut allergy or is this just wishful thinking?

One other data point: Before introducing peanuts (or any solids) we took her to a pediatric gastro b/c she was having mucousy stool with small amounts of blood. The doctor said this was likely an insensitivity to milk or soy but not an allergy. IGg ca IGe in think is what they said. The stool issues have now resolved but now this.

I’m pretty stressed out about this and given covid-19 don’t think it makes sense to take the baby to the doctor for this right now. Would welcome everyone’s insights or advice.

[Anonymous]

This is an allergy. Please take her to an allergist.

[Anonymous]

https://www.foodallergy.org/living-food-allergies/information-you/newly-diagnosed

[Anonymous]

My kid's peanut allergy manifests as diarrhea--never any breathing issues.

[Anonymous]

DD and I both have peanut allergies. This is a symptom for both of us.
Please avoid until you can get her into an allergist.

[Anonymous]

This sounds exactly like my peanut allergy. Agree you should not take baby to the doctor now - just avoid peanut.

[Anonymous]

That's how my cousin's daughter's allergy started. They didn't have it pieced together at the time, but later on she developed hives after contact with it, and they finally determined it was a peanut allergy and that she was highly allergic. In the beginning it just made her nauseous and she refused to eat peanut butter. She was finally diagnosed at age 4.

[Anonymous]

Either IgE or non-IgE mediated allergy to peanuts. AVOID peanuts until you can see an allergist. The first requires an Epi-Pen rx and the second is something called FPIES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds exactly like my peanut allergy. Agree you should not take baby to the doctor now - just avoid peanut.

Yes, this.

[Anonymous]

That's a peanut allergy. Do not feed her peanut products anymore and get your pediatrician to call in an Rx for an Epi-pen and give you some education on food allergy.

[Anonymous]

You need to see an allergist and have proper testing done before you start demanding an EpiPen. What else did your child consume in that 1.5 hours the last two times she vomited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds exactly like my peanut allergy. Agree you should not take baby to the doctor now - just avoid peanut.

Yes, this.

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Avoid peanuts for now until you can get to the doctors and get more answers. Don’t feed your child any more peanuts at all. You can go from a mild allergic reaction to anaphylaxis the next time. I have a relative that had a mild reaction to peanuts and then had an severe reaction the next time he ate something with peanuts in it. He was told it could life threatening next time and he was lucky. The reactions to peanut sensitivity for some people can change rapidly from mild to severe quickly in our experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to see an allergist and have proper testing done before you start demanding an EpiPen. What else did your child consume in that 1.5 hours the last two times she vomited?

In normal circumstances this would be reasonable. Now it isn’t. Having an EpiPen in the house is a reasonable safety measure. When it’s safe to go back to the doc, allergy testing makes sense too.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

This is a peanut allergy. This is exactly how my daughter reacts to ingesting nuts/peanuts. One bite and she vomits within 10-15 minutes of eating. Avoid peanuts/nuts until you can get a test.