Strawberries and discovering new allergies questions

thiswillbe

So it looks like DS is allergic to strawberries (DD seems to handle them just fine). Two quick questions:

1) Does anyone have info on strawberry allergies? Are they in a family of foods we should be careful with? I couldn't find anything useful googling last night.

2) If you discover new allergies, do you tell your allergist? Get your kid(s) formally tested for that food? Or just avoid the food and go about your business?

FWIW, he's also allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame, and we avoid chickpeas, too, since DD is allergic to them (in addition to the others listed), so we already have epi pens and benadryl on hand. Benadryl was enough to handle the strawberry reaction. TIA!

magdusia

1)  - i'm not familiar with fruit allergies but my allergist mentioned that MOST fruit allergies are oral allergies.  FWIW

2) - at this point i just write down all the reactions in my planner and avoid the food and when i go see her during his yearly visit, i'll bring up what ever i think he should be tested for.  But i think it all depends what it is.  If it's something very common that is used all the time, i would want her to test him ASAP so i know for sure what i need to avoid it and change my menus around.

 

g_belle

our allergist said just to write down any new trigger foods that we find, what the symptoms were and then we'll address it at our next visit. 

Unless it's an ana. reaction.  Then they want a call (which they would get because the hospital would call them) and we'd schedule an immediate follow up.

ColesMommy0606

Our Allergist also mentioned that most fruit allergies are not true allergies and are just caused by the histamine in the fruit. Our DS kept having reactions to mango and pineapple, same reaction every single time no matter what form given. He tested negative for both, frustrating.