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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Ayep. We didn't give them any of that shit until way later.
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My wife has a anaphylactic allergy to peanuts, most other nuts and peas so we researched this quite a bit when our twins were born. The current recommendation based on the research that we obtained through a paediatric allergist was that children should start to be introduced to common allergens (wheat, egg, dairy, nuts, etc) at 6 months unless there is a reason to do so earlier (in our case with my wife’s history we started at 4 months). It’s just a very small amount of the food that you give the child, and then monitor for any reactions. The idea is to identify early on if there are any allergies that a child needs to be desensitized to. If an allergy like nuts can be identified early on, work can be done to desensitize the child so that it does not become an anaphylactic allergy. This becomes harder to do if the allergy is discovered when the child is older. Fortunately for our kids, they have not had any reactions, but the recommendation was to keep giving them the exposure to these common allergens weekly until age 4 to ensure they don’t develop an allergy.
So for Bronze, he can hopefully be put on a regimen to desensitize him to the peanut allergy so that he can hopefully avoid an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and not have to carry an epipen everywhere he goes like my wife!