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Is this allergic reaction?
Hi Everyone,
My 15mth DD has food intolerance but for the first time she has a reaction and i am wondering if it is an allergic reaction. We gave her oat cereal with fruit on thursday, friday and she seemed fine. We again gave her on saturday when she refused it and ate may be all of 4 or 5 mouthfulls around 8PM. When i took her for her diaper change i noticed red bumps over her body and a few on her face. The next day her cheeks seemed more redder and the spots on her body were still there, if anything she had more of these on her body, hands and legs as well. Her face still has the red bumps on her face and the bumps on her body are still there but not so red. Could this be a reaction to the oat cereal? I havent given her any oat cereal since saturday, could an allergic reaction last this long (today is tuesday, so 3 days) or could it be something else? Lastly, she started at a daycare last week and apparently there is roseola going around but from everything i read, you are suppose to have 2-3 days of very high fever before you break out with the rash and even then the rash only lasts 1-2 days. My DD never had high fevers, so i am thinking its not roseola. Thanks, Nitu |
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Hi Nitu,
My son had roseola, and he never had a fever with it, although it is common for kids to get a fever before getting the spots. Also, his spots lasted for about a week. I think roseola is harmless, I've never heard anything horrible about it anyway. As far as allergic reactions go, you can't be allergic to anything unless you come into contact with it for at least the second time, so as far as that goes, she might be allergic to the oats. However, I think food intollerances usually show themselves differently than just spots. Have you changed washing detergents? Or maybe she's just intollerant to the one you use. I would go see the doctor just to be on the safe side, you never know right. All the best, Jolande On Sep 18, 7:16 pm, nitu wrote: Hi Everyone, My 15mth DD has food intolerance but for the first time she has a reaction and i am wondering if it is an allergic reaction. We gave her oat cereal with fruit on thursday, friday and she seemed fine. We again gave her on saturday when she refused it and ate may be all of 4 or 5 mouthfulls around 8PM. When i took her for her diaper change i noticed red bumps over her body and a few on her face. The next day her cheeks seemed more redder and the spots on her body were still there, if anything she had more of these on her body, hands and legs as well. Her face still has the red bumps on her face and the bumps on her body are still there but not so red. Could this be a reaction to the oat cereal? I havent given her any oat cereal since saturday, could an allergic reaction last this long (today is tuesday, so 3 days) or could it be something else? Lastly, she started at a daycare last week and apparently there is roseola going around but from everything i read, you are suppose to have 2-3 days of very high fever before you break out with the rash and even then the rash only lasts 1-2 days. My DD never had high fevers, so i am thinking its not roseola. Thanks, Nitu |
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Thank you for your response Jolande.
It was a relief to hear your son too had roseola without a fever and the spot lasting a week. My DD's cheeks looked horrible the first 2-3 days, its getting better now but still not gone fully. The spots on her body arent red anymore but are still there, hopefully they too will be gone by the end of the week. I am still not sure about the oat cereal reaction since she has had oats before without any reaction and she has nutrios which are made with oat and corn flour and has had no reaction in the past. I will avoid the cereal for sometime just to be on the safe side but am thinking of offering her the nutrios. I did see the pediatrician but at that time i thought it was a reaction to the oats as i wasnt aware of the roseola. Thanks again, Nitu |
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DS (now 14 months) has a whole bunch of food allergies, dairy,
peanuts, egg, wheat and soy. He had horrible eczema from birth, lots of gas and BMs, and lots of weird rashes. I exclusively BF til about 5-6 months when we let him start solids. He was very into solids, and we introduced stuff pretty fast. We finally figured it out after he had hives to yogurt and hives to mac and cheese. It wasn't consistent, after the first reaction to peach yogurt, I though it had to be the annato, since he'd had plain yogurt a few times before and after with no problem, and had had cheese without problems a few times. He hated it when I offered him egg, hated soy, and never really had wheat or nuts. As a rule he loves food, so if he dislikes something, it is a clue for me that there may be a problem. At one point before I cut out his allergens, he had a rash I thought was roseola without a fever. A good friend of mine is a dermatologist and she said that you pretty much never have roseola without a fever, and it's tough to miss the fever since it lasts a day or so and is quite high. We got him tested and it was high level positive. At the advice of the allergist I cut all his allergens out of my diet and his, and his eczema *disappeared* within a week. Since then we had an accidental milk exposure and the reaction was quite severe, requiring an epi pen, ER visit, etc... So I wouldn't rule out food allergy, and it's probably wise to avoid the suspect food for a while. Your pediatrician can do blood testing (RAST) that measure the blood level of IgE to a variety of allergens. Problem is, it's not always that accurate. A very high level might indicate an increased risk of anaphylaxis, particularly if there are other risk factors (asthma, eczema, family history) Skin testing is even less accurate at this age. Also, if you are BFing, he could have an allergic reaction the first time you feed him the solid. Apparently, the amount of allergen that passes into the milk can vary highly between women. DS was so sensitive to dairy in the end that if I goofed, and ate a bite of something with butter in a restaurant, he'd break out later. Good luck. Talk to your pediatrician about testing. I demanded a prescription for a pediatric epi-pen from our ped even before we decided to go ahead with testing. It can't hurt to have one on hand. JJ |
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