My son will be 1 next month, is it okay to give him food that contains peanuts?

Question

There is no history of peanut allergy in both our families.

Answer 1

You can try this: put a bit of peanut butter on his arm and see if he breaks out in a rash. If not, try his lip. Have some children's Benadryl ready. If his tongue doesn't swell or lip doesn't swell, he should be ok, but I'm guessing he will not like it that much by having waited that long to give it to him. It's sad that these crazy nut allergies are so common now; they never used to be when we were fed canned milk and formula and given cereal in our bottles at 2 and 3 months. It's so screwed up. It's all backwards now; I broke all the rules and fed my son early, formula fed him as a baby; cereal in the bottle at 5 weeks, and his dad does have some allergies, but my son has none. I think it's such a shock to their systems when they're not given it early enough, that they go into...shock. All my friends who did what I did have children with no allergies. All my family members and other friends who waited too long to introduce food and breast fed for too long have sick, allergic, even asthmatic kids.

Answer 2

I have twins that have just turned two. We have no family history of peanut allergies in our families either, and none of my (five) children have aquired an allergy. Now, I can say that with my first three children, I gave them Peanut butter sandwiches at about a year in age, and never gave it a second thought. However, we now receive WIC for the twins, and they provide healthy foods for Women, Infants, and Children, such as milk, eggs, cereal, juice, etc. They also provide peanut butter, but they do not allow the children to have it until 18 months. I asked about PB when the twins were a year old, and their response was that it's safest to wait until a child is 18 months old, so if they should have an allergy, they may have the ability to communicate with you a little better if they should have a reaction, and also, it's a sticky substance and just better to not take the chance on choking. As far as nuts go, I would advise waiting until you are comfortable with your child being able to chew thoroughly before even offering them. They are way too easy to choke on, because, unlike crackers or dry cereal,or other snacks suitable for a one-year-old, they do not soften in your mouth with just saliva.

Good luck to you and your baby, and remember that there are no right answers when it comes to parenting. You just have to follow your gut instinct, and if your gut says "not yet", then it won't hurt to hold off a little longer.
They aren't little very long, Mommy. Don't rush.

Answer 3

I would go ahead and give your kid food containing peanuts.

Why? Well, I live in Israel, and practically all kids here eat a snack that contains peanut butter; however, peanut allergy is not very common here. This indicates that eating peanut-containg foods in infancy probably does not contribute to allegry, and possibly helps PROTECT against peanut allergy.

Here is a study that supports this view:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00329784
"Peanut allergy has become an increasingly common problem in early childhood in the United States and the United Kingdom. Despite current public health guidelines in both countries recommending the avoidance of peanut consumption in the first years of life, the proportion of children with peanut allergy doubled in these countries over the period from 1998 to 2003. In contrast, peanuts are commonly consumed by infants in realtively high amounts in Africa, Southeast Asia and Israel, yet the rate of peanut allergy is quite low and does not appear to be increasing. Peanut consumption by infants in these parts of the world may actually protect children from developing peanut allergy by promoting oral tolerance to peanuts."

Answer 4

Even if there is no allergy history, you may want to check in with a doctor just to make sure. You really dont want to have to deal with giving him something that has peanuts in it, only to find by some rare happening he has a deathly peanut allergy.

Answer 5

No, 3 a million/2 months is plenty too early for solids. contemporary suggestion is to start solids at around 6 months. And whilst that is appropriate to start as early as 4 months, that does no longer advise that 3 a million/2 months is okay. quit putting cereal in his bottle (pointless, risky and by no ability recommended via any stable source), and seem for different achieveable motives for his obvious starvation. If he's already ingesting 6 ozevery ninety minutes, that is sixteen feeds according to day x 6 oz = ninety six oza day --- that's plenty better than any toddler would be predicted to prefer, and that is impossible that he's truly that hungry, or perhaps much less probably that a pair of bites of applesauce would abruptly fulfill him.

Answer 6

I agree with testing on his body first but really I wouldent worry too much. At one month babys are not even ready for solid food so I would speak with the Doctor first. The main food you want to not give your child untill at least 2 years of age is HONEY. The best thing you can do is talk with a Doctor about questions such as this Yahoo answers is a great place to come to with answers but you dont want to risk the health and safety of your child based on answers you get from people on the internet.

Answer 7

Once he turns 1 you can give him things like peanut butter ect..but stay away from nuts until they are like 3 or 4 (double check the age with the pediatrician) not for alergies, but because they are choking hazards.

Answer 8

I would advise against it, but ask your pediatrician about it before giving him anything with peanuts in it. I don't think it's necessarily a genetic allergy. You'd rather be safe than sorry.

Answer 9

no, children should not be given any type of nut until they are 5 years old, this is 1. they could choke and secondly beacuase of allergy reasons, speak to your health visitor and explain exactly what you are wanting to give him and see what her response is

Answer 10

It would depend...has he ever had a reaction to any form of nut in the past? do you mean a full nut or paste etc...I would sujest advoid full nuts and stick to small amounts of nut flavouring and penut paste etc...to see if he is ok to have them but until 1 and 1/2 to 2 do not give full nuts as a snack. they can still choke on them!