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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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![/quote]

FPIES family here too that sees Sharma. Agree he is awesome![/quote]

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