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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid tried shellfish around 14 months, but I would have been more cautious if there was a family history of shellfish allergy.

My husband has tree nut allergies. so I waited until my son was more than 2 years old to try out those--basically until he was old enough to communicate if he was in pain or having any problems.[/quote]

This sounds reasonable.  My DC1 has a lot of allergies and while I've been told there is no correlation making DC2 more likely to have allergies than any other child, it still makes me nervous.  She is 5 months, so we are just starting to think about introducing food (obviously, not shellfish yet!).  Trying possible allergins that DC1 is not allergic to on the younger side but waiting until DC2 can communicate well to try DC1's Big Three makes sense to me.

For what it's worth, we discovered some of DC1's allergies when he was old enough to tell us something tasted "spicy" (between 12 and 30 months old).  I am pretty sure that he was using "spicy" to describe an uncomfortable tingly/numbness in his mouth but he didn't know words for that.  Later, our allergist told us this was common.[/quote]

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