Allergies in Babies
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:58 pm
I wonder if anyone has any experience of anything like this please.
When my now 6 month old baby was 6 weeks, we gave her a couple of oz of aptimil. We have her a couple of oz for 3 days and on the 3rd day she was extremely sick, developed a rash and we ended up in hospital. We were told to try a different brand so tried SMA. This time the reaction was immediate and we were back at the hospital. Although not serious as such, for such a small baby it was very scary. She lost a lot of weight during this period.
We were referred to a paediatrician, who advised she has a cow's milk protein allergy and said he would rather we wean at 3 months than try any more formula.
I continued breastfeeding and when she was 5 months old, when we introduced some baby rice. Again, for the first couple of days she was fine so we moved to pear, mixed with baby rice. By this time she had developed excema, was sick, screaming in pain, rash, sick etc. On HV advice we stopped for a couple of days and just introduced baby rice. Same reaction.
We went back to the paediatrician, who said she also had a rice allergy. He said this was very uncommon. When she was 6 months old we saw a dietician, who gave us a list of things to introduce. Carrot, sweet potato and courgette were fine, apart from causing excema. On the second day of peas we had screaming, sick etc again so we stopped that. Yesterday we gave lentils and that was possibly the worst reaction so far. She only had a couple of lentils and about 7 hours later was screaming in pain for hours and the whole day's worth of milk came back up. Once that had happened, she was happy.
I am feeling quite isolated at the moment as the paediatrician has just said we have to just keep trying things as skn prick test don't work on someone so young, plus she has a delayed reaction so it would be difficult to see what she is reacting to. I was keen to stop breastfeeding and am finding it difficult to cope with pretty much exclusively breastfeedig at 6.5 months and each day wondering what allergy will appear next.
Has anyone else had anything like this? If so, what other foods is she likely to be allergic to?
Any help/adivce would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
When my now 6 month old baby was 6 weeks, we gave her a couple of oz of aptimil. We have her a couple of oz for 3 days and on the 3rd day she was extremely sick, developed a rash and we ended up in hospital. We were told to try a different brand so tried SMA. This time the reaction was immediate and we were back at the hospital. Although not serious as such, for such a small baby it was very scary. She lost a lot of weight during this period.
We were referred to a paediatrician, who advised she has a cow's milk protein allergy and said he would rather we wean at 3 months than try any more formula.
I continued breastfeeding and when she was 5 months old, when we introduced some baby rice. Again, for the first couple of days she was fine so we moved to pear, mixed with baby rice. By this time she had developed excema, was sick, screaming in pain, rash, sick etc. On HV advice we stopped for a couple of days and just introduced baby rice. Same reaction.
We went back to the paediatrician, who said she also had a rice allergy. He said this was very uncommon. When she was 6 months old we saw a dietician, who gave us a list of things to introduce. Carrot, sweet potato and courgette were fine, apart from causing excema. On the second day of peas we had screaming, sick etc again so we stopped that. Yesterday we gave lentils and that was possibly the worst reaction so far. She only had a couple of lentils and about 7 hours later was screaming in pain for hours and the whole day's worth of milk came back up. Once that had happened, she was happy.
I am feeling quite isolated at the moment as the paediatrician has just said we have to just keep trying things as skn prick test don't work on someone so young, plus she has a delayed reaction so it would be difficult to see what she is reacting to. I was keen to stop breastfeeding and am finding it difficult to cope with pretty much exclusively breastfeedig at 6.5 months and each day wondering what allergy will appear next.
Has anyone else had anything like this? If so, what other foods is she likely to be allergic to?
Any help/adivce would be much appreciated. Many thanks.