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Banana allergy

ColeslawcatColeslawcat member
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I've posted on this board before due to my own celiac disease, but this is the first time it's about one of my kids. I just found out my son has a banana allergy. He's been eating them for 2 months. Over the last week he's thrown up a few times at what seemed random times. On Friday he threw up immediately after eating a jar of bananas, I thought back to his previous incidents and realized they were after bananas but not immediately. Yesterday he had another jar of bananas and threw up before we even got half way through. Needless to say, I won't be giving him bananas again. The pediatrician doesn't want to test him. She said based on his reaction it is clear he has the allergy. Since allergies can be outgrown she wants me to avoid bananas strictly until a year then we will reexpose him and see if he still reacts.

I'm also nervous about the latex link. He uses latex nipples in his bottles. I am not sure if I should keep using them. I haven't noticed any sort of reaction to them, but I'm also not sure what a reaction to latex would look like.

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Re: Banana allergy

  • ABColeslawABColeslaw member

    A laytex reaction can vary.  Some people get gives or a rash, others stop breathing.  The thing about laytex is that its a progressive allergy, so one day it could be hives and the next result in ana. 

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    my son has a mild banana allergy and although he tested negative to laytex- we think there might still be an issue.  Sometimes he breaks out in a rash after playing with a balloon and other days he's fine.  If you've never noticed a reaction from the bottles- I'd just watch him closely. 
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  • Jaimels78Jaimels78
    I was diagnosed 2 years ago with a banana/latex allergy.  It is funny because I have enjoyed bananas all my life.  Allergies are funny like that.  I would definitely avoid latex even if there is no reaction.  Bananas/latex come from the same tree.  The more exposure LO has of them, the worse his allergy could get.  Mine started with just sneezing, then hives, then swelling over a period of a year.  Now I carry an epipen.  Almost everything can be found in a latex free version and in the long term, it is healthier for him.
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  • Miller238Miller238 member
    Kiwi is also a related allergy to bananas and latex.  My daughter is positive to bananas, but negative so latex and kiwi (so far!). 
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  • puterbabyputerbaby
    I have a banana allergy, but not a latex allergy.  It appeared when I was 8 years old.  Until then I ate bananas all the time.  I was pretty tramatized, so I have not eaten a banana or anything containing banana since  (I had three reactions in about two weeks).  It was after the third reaction that I figured it out myself.  I now believe that is it actually the pesticide on the banana that I had a reaction to, but I'm still too chicken to try organic bananas!
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