Baby Clarisse allergic to green peas

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There seems to be teeny weeny red bumps popping out all over baby Clarisse face during the past few days days. Sorta like baby acne but on some parts of her face, it looks like a rash and red patchy areas. It immediately struck me baby Clarisse might be allergic to something. No, it wasn’t some topical cream as I didn’t put anything on her face. The only suspect was some organic green peas which I bought a week ago. It was something new I’ve included in her diet and chances are the green peas might be triggering a slight allergic reaction which shows on her face. It is always best to be observant and monitor new food type in your baby’s diet. It took me a while to realise the green peas as baby Clarisse has never shown any allergic reaction to nearly all food I’ve introduced to her diet so I slacked a bit. It was until my husband who mentioned green peas that made her stood up and take notice. The condition of her face immediately improved barely 2 days after consuming green peas. I guess I’ll stop including green peas in her diet for a while and save it for later.

Johana writes ...

Thanks for the article, my baby is having a allergic reaction to peas. But it is worse, his spread all over. No more green peas for now!!!

August 15th, 2010 at 1:27 am

Iris writes ...

We found out first when my son was 6mo old that he has food allergies. Now at age 2, we are more clear on his allergies.. unfortunately we found out mostly through trial and error and after he already consumed these foods. Peas is on the list of things he can’t have. He is allergic to most legumes including mung beans, lentil, yellow and green split beans. He is able to eat garbanzo beans and red kidney beans. He is also allergic to string beans and peas. He does have severe allergies towards walnuts, pistacios, and peanuts but can have pinenuts and almonds.

September 16th, 2011 at 2:42 pm

Iris writes ...

Btw.. the reaction he has when consuming these foods is that it starts around his mouth and wrists. He starts forming bumps (size of peas or smaller) and redness around the area. It’s very itchy as he keeps scratching it. The redness and bumps spread to his entire face and in some occassion his scalp. On several very severe cases, his eyes started swelling shut and where very red. We immediately give him childrens benedryl (if reaction is severe) or Allegra (if reaction is mild) to help with the allergies and wash his skin and apply cortison. We wait by his side to make sure his airways don’t swell up. I have an epipen ready at all time. (The reason I don’t like giving benedryl at all times is that it makes him sleepy)

September 16th, 2011 at 2:48 pm