I am wondering when you moms figured out your LO had a food allergy and how difficult it was to pinpoint the actual trigger food. I ask this because I have a kind off the wall "allergy" (it is really an amino acid intolerance but acts like an allergy) and I am trying to figure out when I will be able to tell if DS has the same sensitivity.
I'm not due unitl June but am just trying to get a leg up on the "competion".
Re: When did you know?
You usually introduce foods slowly when you are first starting solids. For example, start with peas and just give LO peas for 3-5 days. If no reaction then you go on to the next thing, now giving green beans for 3-5 days. After you run out of baby food to try then it's on to table food. With a suspected allergy you may want to take a similar approach by not introducing more than one food at a time. This way if there is a reaction you immediately know what did it instead of trying to eliminate and backtrack. Talk to your pedi about a plan of action.
My LO was a severe ana reaction with hives, throwing up, swelling, etc to peanuts. We tried it at home when we knew both of us would be there just in case and not a caregiver just in case something happened, which it did. We had a hospital stay and followed up with an allergist including blood and scratch test.
I have tried talking to all kinds of HCPs about it but no one knows what to do with me. They have never heard of this before. I have talked to tons of doctors (allergists, GIs, GPs, etc) and nurses and none of them even know what the amino acid even is. Unfortunatly it translates into a ton of food intolerances (nuts, aged cheese, aged meat, fermented soy, avacado, certain beans, dried frut, etc). Because HCPs have no idea what it is I end up truning in like 3 pages of foods they are not allowed to feed me or telling them I am "allergic" to. I am hoping my LO just inherits his Dad's insides and isn't intolerant to all the stuff I am.