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How old is your LO? I ate tons and tons of peanut butter and almond butter and no allergies with my kids. My DS does have pretty severe eczema, but when I cut back on his dairy his eczema is not as bad.

Likely coincidental. I would not try to actively avoid these foods

No allergies here and I ate whatever I wanted while BFing. Nothing you did caused the allergies mama.

@charlotte: DD2 was just diagnosed with a dairy allergy (at two weeks old) I know it sounds silly but it almost makes me want to quit BFing completely

@MrsH: if it makes you feel better (or validated, perhaps), a dairy free diet was on my "nope" list for breastfeeding.

So I'm only as educated as google and my pediatrician have informed me... and obviously no one has sorted out this peanut allergy thing fully or we'd all know what to do. But the most recent studies I've read that make sense to me claim that at least part of cause for increased peanut allergies in the US is because of passive exposure to kids. Apparently in areas where peanut consumption is very low by everyone, there are few peanut allergies. And in areas where people eat a lot of peanuts and feed them to babies early, there are few peanut allergies. In America we eat a lot of peanuts (while breastfeeding but also kids get exposed through their skin when we eat things and there is residue and we kiss them or touch them) but we won't feed them to kids early. So their bodies make antibodies but don't learn to tolerate them because they aren't ingesting them (I'm maybe explaining that wrong... I"m not a science person but that was my basic understanding).

Point is-- I ate peanuts while pregnant, while nursing, and gave them to my daughter relatively early (at 10 months). Same with tree nuts and all other allergens. She has no allergies except to avocado-- which is just random and not something I eat a lot of.

@MrsH: I'm sorry Dairy allergy blows. Fiona had MSPI so I was off dairy and soy and it suckeeddddd. Especially in the early days when you're just getting by (and you have 2!). I only lasted maybe 6 weeks on the diet before I gave up and we did nutramigen (we were supplementing anyways and I felt very meh about it). If you need any ideas/support feel free to pm me (or fb me, I think we are fb friends!). But if you quit--- your little will be just fine.