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[quote=Anonymous]First, RELAX. It was scary but relax. A trip to the ER was probably not necessary. Did you call your doctor after the reaction? Did the swelling stop when you washed her hands and moved the strawberries?

We gave our 6 month old peanut butter and he immediately broke into hives and his lips swelled up. We cleaned off his face and hands, called the doctor, and gave him benadryl. We did not go to the ER.

We waited a couple months and then tried again, this time just putting a small, small dab of PB on his cheek (per doctors advice). Immediate reaction. Argh.

We went to the allergist around 10 months old and then confirmed the peanut allergy via the skin test. EVEN STILL, the allergist was very clear in telling us that severe reactions are RARE and we should continue to live our lives and keep peanuts away and epipen on hand. Again, severe reactions are possible but RARE.  We do not live our lives terrified that this will happen. Our allergist told us that if we ever start to feel fearful or controlled by the allergy, then we need to come back in and talk to her.

After the peanut incident and before the allergy appointment, we continued to give him a great variety of food, but avoided peanuts (like, peanut butter and crushed peanuts on pad thai). We still went out to eat all the time and gave him everything: indian, ethiopian, pizza, muffins, sandwiches, etc etc. If he ever seemed to have a reaction, we'd wash his hands and face and remove the food. He has never reacted to anything else.

It's tricky because it could have been a bad batch of strawberries.

Relax. Seriously. It'll be fine.

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