Children's Allergy Clinic

03/01/2025

07/07/2022

Reintroducing cow’s milk back into your baby’s diet when they have cow’s milk protein intolerance (food protein induced allergic proctocolitis):

This can be done as the dairy ladder OR by simply trying fresh cow’s milk. There is no wrong answer here for CMPI. Often parents can feel worried about starting with straight milk. Aside from the worry some kids can still have an intolerance to milk. In these cases they may be able to tolerate something like a milk muffin. For this reason often the dairy ladder is the suggested way of reintroducing cows milk. If confident however, there is no harm in trying cow’s milk first. Always talk to your local doctor regarding the options.

NOTE: the management is different for an IgE mediated allergy to cow’s milk.

(This is my bubba trying soy flour in bread for the first time this week ❤️🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾 hopefully we go okay)

30/06/2022

Can you eat other nuts when you have a peanut allergy???

Peanut is a legume. Peanut is not a nut. Therefore peanut is not related to other nuts. So most kids with a peanut allergy can eat all other nuts. All other nuts are classified as tree nuts.

19/01/2022

YOU ARE PEANUT ALLERGIC CAN YOU EAT PEANUT OIL?

YES YES YES you can!

You are allergic to the protein part of a food. When the food is processed and made into an oil the protein is removed. So you can definitely usually eat it. EVEN IF your child has had anaphylaxis to the food the oil is safe.

*****EXCEPTIONS
-If the oil has got peanut you can see (cloudy stuff or sediment or the paste) at the bottom of the bottle avoid it. That means it has some residual protein in it, so avoid it!!!
-ALSO if it is labelled ‘cold pressed’, ‘virgin’, ‘high phenolic’, ‘expelled’ or ‘extruded’ it will likely have proteins in it. These oils haven’t been exposed to heat and can retain protein. Avoid these types of oils.

Saying this most of your usual peanut oils from the local supermarket are safe.

If you have a sesame allergy, sesame oil is also generally safe but some people can react to it as it can be less refined. I usually suggest my patients try a small amount to see if they can tolerate it.