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Offline Doj

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Reaction to Chocolate, I think....please NO
« on: October 31, 2008, 13:39:40 pm »
DD is almost 3 and I finally decided to cave in and let her have chocolate.

About 1 month ago, I let her have choc pudding and she was fine.

2 weeks after that she had a small sip of my hot choc and the next day she broke out in a rash on her face which looked almost like chicken pox (about 6). I brought her to the DR because she also had a cold and wasn't sure if the cold and rash were connected (totally forgot that she had a sip of my hot choc and didn't mention to DR). The DR thought that she had a virus and gave her anti biotics and her cough was gone within a couple of days) No more spots ever appeared.

On Monday this week gave dd about 1/8"cube of semi-sweet choc at about 10am (i must be nuts LOL) and at 1pm dd was complaining of a stomach ache and had diarrhea and then had it again at 4pm.

Could this be a reaction to choc? or just a coincidence?
Tonight is Halloween and I am going to hold off giving dd Choc. If she is having a reaction, I want to wait a few more days until her immune system was fine again.

Any thoughts?

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Re: Reaction to Chocolate, I think....please NO
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2008, 13:44:13 pm »
Wow, sure sounds like a reaction to me.  Did she eat anything else that day which was out of the ordinary?
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Re: Reaction to Chocolate, I think....please NO
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2008, 13:46:46 pm »
the only other thing she ate that day (Monday) was a rice krispie square.

When should I try it again with her? Is tomorrow too early? If something were to happen, I want to make sure that DH is home with me.
I am worried about giving it to her incase she has a severe reaction.


Is this an allergy that is usually grown out?
Ohh not sure if the 2 are connected, but she has had white choc before in a muffin a few times and never had a reaction to it.
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Re: Reaction to Chocolate, I think....please NO
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2008, 14:52:25 pm »
If she seems completely fine right now, no bum rash from the diarrhea, face is clear, attitude is normal, I don't see any reason why not to try it tomorrow.  I would maybe give her a tiny tiny bit, like 1 chocolate chip or something like that.  Though you may want to see what others say on this board.  I really don't have that much experience with this stuff myself and would hate to see something go wrong.
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Re: Reaction to Chocolate, I think....please NO
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2008, 00:50:17 am »
It is just so hard to tell.  Just an example when we trialed tyler on Lactose Free Whole Milk, at the same time his brother was getting over a stomach virus.  Not sure if Tyler's reaction was to the milk or the virus, but given our history, i stopped milk.

It really does sound like a reaction to me, but could be sick also. 

I personally would not push it right now.  I mean if she has never had chocolate before, she want miss it for now.


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