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Help figuring out allergen?

CurlyQ284CurlyQ284 member
edited February 2014 in Parenting
Yesterday DS was constipated.  He hasn't been constipated since he was on purees and he's not a big fruit eater (well he doesn't like a lot of fresh fruit at home but apparently he eats canned fruit just fine at daycare). I thought I would give him pear juice so he got about 3 oz pear juice diluted with 3 oz water.  This was the first time he has ever had juice.  He pooped about 30 minutes later and it was a little hard.

Dinner:
Italian sausage (new)
Asparagus
Dinner Roll

This morning I gave him another 2 oz pear juice/2 oz water
Daycare fed him:
breakfast - cornflakes with milk
lunch - chicken with rice, broccoli
snack - goldfish

He had diarrhea this morning, they said if he had one more BM they would ask me to pick him up.  He was super fussy and clingy.  When I picked him up he had an allergy rash on his stomach.  He's allergic to penicillin so I know what it looks like.  While I cooked dinner he threw a tantrum and during dinner I noticed his skin was tomato red from his nose/cheeks to chin.  I don't know if it's from the tantrum or allergic reaction but it stayed red until he went to bed (about an hour later).

He's had canned pears before but never pear juice or fresh pears (spit them out).  I have served asparagus but I don't remember if he spit it out/threw it or if he ate it.  He only had about 1-2 stalks last night.  He's had pork before but I don't know all the seasonings in the sausage.  Nothing else was new.  What do you think?  

I hate allergic reactions, I worry that he'll stop breathing in the middle of the night and I won't know.
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Re: Help figuring out allergen?

  • I know broccoli caused DS2 to have diarrhea and a rash but that was the first time he ever had it.


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  • Do you know when the rash first appeared? With DS1 he gets a rash right after he eats something he's allergic to. I would probably look at what he ate right before the rash showed up.
  • It was there when I picked him up from daycare so it showed up sometime between cornflakes and goldfish.  The floater thought it was eczema, he has eczema on his legs at the moment and she thought it was spreading (floater has only been there a few months and is a college kid).  I wasn't sure if the diarrhea was part of his reaction to an allergen in addition to the rash? 
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  • It sounds like it might be the pear juice. But honestly there is no way to tell exactly unless you have him tested for that specifically at an allergist. Is he having trouble breathing? Have you given him Benedryl before? Hope he gets better soon!
    He wasn't having trouble before bed and I gave him benedryl for 2 days when he had the reaction to penicillin.
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  • Hmm...well since I don't know exactly when the rash showed up, it could be anything.  Maybe I can find out from his regular teacher in the morning. 
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  • Wheat? Though if he's not had it before and had eaten wheat for a while maybe not. Are you sure it was food? No new soap or detergent?
    No new soap or detergent.  He didn't even have a bath last night, I do every other night because of his dry skin and eczema.
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