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[quote=Anonymous]When my twins were  11 months old, we tried strawberries.  They loved them and one of them who had bad cradle cap and eczema on his legs the eczema would flare extremely red for a day or two after he had strawberries.  It took us 3-4 times before we realized the link.  At 14 months, we tried them with peanut butter.  Within 2 minutes after 1 cracker with about a teaspoon or less of PB, both developed pretty significant bright red hives on their chest, arms and neck and were scratching a lot.  We administered benadryl and called our pediatrician's on-call service. After about 5 minutes, the hives had calmed down and there was only a slight pink tinge and they stopped scratching.  When the pediatrician called back about 15 minutes later (about 20 minutes after the incident), she said that we did the right thing, to monitor them for 24 hours and come in Monday (it was on a Saturday at lunch) and she would check.  She checked them and said they were fine and gave us a scrip for the epi-pen.  At 2.5 we finally had an allergy panel and the one tested negative for all but mild environmental allergies (dust, mold, pollen).  The one that had eczema tested mild (below the normal level they call allergic, but still a reaction) for PB and negative for all but environmental allergies like the other twin.  The pediatrician said that was good but still refilled the epipen scrip just in case.  We keep an epipen at school and one in the bag of kid supplies we keep in the car/house but have not had an incident since.

We do tell people that there is a mild allergy to peanut butter, but that the allergy panel was close to negative, so not a serious concern.  I can believe that the child may have had a very early reaction to peanut butter but no longer reacts, and the Mom has just not changed her position since he was a toddler.[/quote]

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