hi,
we had a weird experience w/ my 26.5 month old today. FWIW, he's had all nuts on multiple occasions w/ no problems. i gave him peanut butter shortly after his 2 yr bday and he's had several things w/ peanut butter since. today around 5pm , we got in the car to leave for a xmas party. he threw up before i even got in the car. he has never thrown up before. we thought it was a fluke b/c he was acting totally normal, not feverish etc, not crying, wanting to go. i also gave him a very rich piece of choc candy earlier so thought maybe it was too much for him. agst better judgement, we went anyway. after an hour at the party, he started getting a runny nose, sneezing, and then hives. we did eat at the party. we immediately went home gave him benadryl and the hives started turning into large whelps but he seemed to be doing better and we put him to bed. long story short, he threw up again later. most of hte hives/whelps are gone but there is still a few rashes around his upper legs. we gave him a 2nd dose of benadryl. FWIW, my husband and i are medical professionals so we are not completely clueless but we are baffled!
from what i remember this is what he ate today (i apologize, this is a HORRIBLE, embarrassing menu):
breakfast 8am : oatmeal crisp w/ almonds w/ milk (has had almonds more times than i can count)
snack 10am: apple cinnamon cliff Z-bar for kids, raisins, water (bar has soy butter??)
lunch 12pm: bites of mandarin orange, cheese, and salami
snack 4pm: dried banana, milk, and rocky road candy (we have lots of xmas goodies at the house at the moment) - contains peanuts, i think (has had peanut butter several times now)
dinner 6pm: he ate something w/ pesto (which he has had several times before but not sure how this was made), and possibly had some spinach-shrimp dip (has had shrimp before)
we're at a total loss?? food allergies are so weird.
thoughts anyone?
thanks for reading...it has been a rough evening so far