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So yesterday I had a new experience! I thought I'd try out a new baby food on Korina so I chose apricots. Not too long later, she had broken out in hives! There were red patches all over the back of her neck and some on her legs. Previously to this, neither of my kids had ever had a systemic reaction to any food. I thought all we were dealing with was intolerances.
Now that I have seen the whole hives breakout, it makes me a little more cautious of what to feed her next. Since apricots are related to tree nuts and other pitted fruits, I feel like I have to be extra careful with her. It also explains why whenever I ate almond butter months ago, she reacted to it. I am also wondering if we are now more in the realm of food allergies than intolerances.
I don't know much about food allergies other than just pure experience. I haven't done as much research as many other moms have about food allergies or intolerances and I have been mostly going on a trial and error basis. Sometimes I worry that the more research I do, the more complicated things will become and the more confused I will be. So for now, I am just going to keep moving slowly with solids. So far, I know that she does okay with sweet potatoes, pears, and blueberries. She does not do well with prunes or rice. Everything else is kind of up in the air.
I am currently off of milk, soy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, corn (I have only eliminated corn, corn starch, corn syrup, and caramel color), and seeds (sunflower, flax, pumpkin).
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 05:00
posted by Anya
Thank you for sharing you story.
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Now, I think some babies may have allergy with apricot.
My son is 8 months n I gave him a banana n apricot cereal in the morning and after that he started to cough but still had his morning sleep. However after his morning sleep, I was shocked by his hives all over his body and after a while, he started to cry n screaming and didnt want to have any feed. After maybe 5 or so, he stoped his cry but his face was not looking good. His face started to turn pale, n looked so drowsy and the lips got cold then we rang the ambulance. In the mean time, the 000 operator asked us to hold him sit up straight so he got better, at least his eyes were not closed. I thought I was losing him when he slowly closed his eyes. When ambulance came he looked better, the hives gone coz i put some elocon on him after I saw it. The paramedic took us to hospital to have a check up and gave him some medication and the doctor thought maybe it was allergy but she couldnt tell me from what.
Anyway, now he is good then I just google apricot allergy n found some peopel do get allergy from it. We will go to see doctor next week, hopefully he can give me some answer.