https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 15:39:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-82095 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:52:48 +0000 cupcakemama 82095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave LO peanut butter at 5 months. The thinking here is now to expose them to known allergens early and that restricting exposure may actually add to the incidence of allergies. LO was fine. I gave it in the morning and watched closely for any reactions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81530 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:14:40 +0000 mrs. wagon 81530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: me toooooo!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81518 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:08:30 +0000 Lozza 81518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend inadvertently gave LO some food with peanut oil in it at around 9 months, and he was fine, so now we don't really worry about it. Our pediatrician said that she was comfortable with it starting at 9 months, as long as we had no reason to suspect that LO would be more susceptible to food allergies than normal.<br /> LO is almost 11 months and I think the only things we actively don't feed him are cow's milk, honey, and raw animal (like sushi or steak tartare). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81516 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:07:54 +0000 Andrea 81516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: oh yes, that one, too! i think she may have eaten a little bit of that one last time we went. mmmmm, now i really want dim sum this weekend! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81513 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:06:03 +0000 mrs. wagon 81513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: sounds perfect... because so do I! Haha. Our friend just introduced us to turnip cake... SO GOOD! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81507 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:03:44 +0000 Andrea 81507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: she loves the steamed pork buns and sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81501 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000 mrs. wagon 81501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: ooh, I JUST discovered love for dim sum, but we haven't taken RJ yet... what does your LO eat there? RJ is just coming out of his picky phase so all his food is really simple. What would you suggest for RJ? (he's 26 months) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81498 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:59:10 +0000 Andrea 81498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: yay! yeah, my LO has had dim sum so many times that i am sure she's had peanut oil at some point! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81491 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:57:09 +0000 mrs. wagon 81491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: oh! yes he has! he's eaten the fried rice and the lo mein at the chinese food place we had his birthday party at... I don't think he got any sort of noticeable reaction... YAY! Maybe we will try peanut butter this weekend. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81460 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:35:23 +0000 Andrea 81460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: has RJ had chinese food? i've never given my LO nuts but she has had chinese food so i feel like she's probably had peanut oil already. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81396 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:50:05 +0000 aunt pol 81396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tina: with a bit of luck the cousin's kids have it from the other side of the family and you won't have any problem:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81372 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:27:52 +0000 mrs. wagon 81372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so scared, RJ has never had anything with peanuts and he's over 2 now! Rob Sr.'s cousin's kids are so severely allergic to peanuts, they've never stepped foot in a chinese restaurant and had to skip RJ's first birthday party since we held it at one. (I didn't even know chinese food had a lot of peanuts...) And the mom is a pediatrician. </p> <p>I keep meaning to bring PB to a well baby appt so I can try it while we're already at the doc's office, but I keep forgetting!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81332 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:47:39 +0000 looch 81332@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've given LO muesli that had ground hazelnuts at 13 months, the proportion was so tiny that it didn't seem to have an effect.</p> <p>I went searching for almond nut butter today, in fact, to try it in a sammie for him. I have to go to a healthfood store on the other side of town, so that will have to wait until next week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81063 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:28:16 +0000 aunt pol 81063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: this is the thing, I know everyone's different but it could just be the lack of regular exposure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-81051 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:25:04 +0000 heffalump 81051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll probably do what my doctor says and go a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80929 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:47:28 +0000 Andrea 80929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aunt pol: interesting! i am allergic to cats and dogs so i always think i could never get one -- so maybe i should! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80923 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:46:22 +0000 aunt pol 80923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: it does seem that way, because they found that as more and more pregnant women followed the info campaign in the 90's/00's and avoided nuts, the rate of child allergy just kept climbing. So fingers crossed! It does make sense, though- we always had cats and dogs when I was growing up and I never had any reaction to either. Then when I was away at college and going home once every three/four weeks, I found each time that my first night home was horrible- puffy eyes, runny nose, constant sneezing and wheezing, the lot. Now that I have cats and dogs full time, they don't bother me at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80903 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:41:17 +0000 chopsuey 80903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've given my LO ground almond and cashew. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80879 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:32:24 +0000 Andrea 80879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aunt pol: i don't think it is genetics either as i know asian people who have nut allergies. but maybe it is different in asia. i only know asian americans. i am hoping it is regular exposure since i ate a lot of peanut butter while pregnant with my daughter! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80860 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:20:34 +0000 aunt pol 80860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: that puts the kibosh on it being genetic theory then, it might be heavily dependent on regular exposure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80857 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:18:39 +0000 aunt pol 80857@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've done a lot of reading on it since that fright, and it turns out in China, for example, where peanuts are such a large part of diet, it's virtually unheard of. Ditto in Israel, where peanuts are used in babyfood. UK and Ireland standard advice from 90's was for pregnant women to avoid nuts just in case: uk rescinded that policy a year or two ago as they found with fewer women eating nuts regularly during pregnancy the rates of allergy in children were actually climbing. Their advice now is that pregnant women should actually eat nuts regularly to accustom baby's system to them. They still advise keeping kids nut-free until four, though, and I can't help but think that might be part of the problem. We grew up only really eating peanuts at Halloween, but I never heard of anyone being allergic until the last ten/fifteen years or so, I know nobody thought anything of us eating them v young. It's scary, and frustrating too. Poor SIL is driven mad now studying every single label on every single packet of groceries she buys, but it's a case of having to. Her LO seems to have inherited it from her dad's side, there's one kid with it and there is no sign of it in DH's close or extended family so we're ok on one side, but I'm adopted so we don't know what I'm bringing to the party:( fingers crossed not that anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80841 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:08:30 +0000 Mrs. Bee 80841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we never purposefully gave charlie nuts, but he's eaten things that we didn't know had nuts in it including almonds, pine nuts, and peanut butter in cookies. i highly doubt he's allergic to nuts but i'm still scared to give them to him after a friend's toddler (asian) had to go to the er after eating peanuts! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80824 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:59:40 +0000 Andrea 80824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aunt pol: oh my gosh, that is so frightening!! yes, my plan is to give her peanut butter in the waiting room at 2 years ... which is in a few months. cross fingers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80823 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:59:38 +0000 Maysprout 80823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Baby grabbed some pb that I was eating last week, she's almost 9 months. I don't think I'll start giving it to her regularly for awhile though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80820 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:58:39 +0000 BoogieBea 80820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think he was around 2 years old. He had just started day care/preschool and I was having trouble figuring out what to pack for lunch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80814 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:54:17 +0000 banana 80814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have any nut allergies in our families either so I thought we would be ok. So far so good! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80810 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:52:03 +0000 aunt pol 80810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've actually been agonising about this- DH's niece is nearly four and had a violent reaction to peanuts last autumn- full on anaphylactic shock, swollen tongue, throat, inside of mouth, the lot. Scared the bejesus out of everyone. Doc told SIL the guidelines here are to avoid until they're over four... Any of you of Asian descent are probably fine, as far as I know it's virtually unheard of for ye. My kids will get their first taste of peanuts in a doctors waiting room, if I've my way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80809 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:51:30 +0000 Andrea 80809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: i can't wait! but i have been scared of a reaction so i have been holding off. but we have no nut allergies in the family so hopefully i am worrying for nothing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80804 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:47:56 +0000 banana 80804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@andrea: At first I gave him a little bit at a time (to rule out allergies) and once we were SURE,, we gave him a huge spoonful. And that's when the fun began. LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-age-did-youare-you-giving-your-lo-nuts#post-80797 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:45:28 +0000 Andrea 80797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: i haven't given my LO peanut butter yet. and i do wonder how she will get it down. haha. i would totally take a video, too!!! </p>