Peanut Allergy

We're really worried that our little Chloe has a peanut allergy! We started to notice the reaction the second time she had peanut butter, when she was 15 months. Her face broke out in hives. We didn't give her Peanut butter again until her second year doctor's appointment. The dr wanted to see the reaction so we gave her a ritz PB cracker before we went into the building. She had a few hives around her mouth but the dr didn't think it was a big deal.

I gave her peanut butter and jelly for lunch yesterday and within 15 minutes Chloe broke out in hives on her arms and on her torso. She said she was itchy. I gave her benadryl and called the on-call doctor. The reaction calmed down within an hour.

Today I talked to Chloe's doctor and he said that this is now very serious and he is concerned about the reaction. With each exposure it can get worse. We have an epi pen waiting for us at CVS and we have to make an appt with the nurses at the pediatrican's office to learn how to use it. Hopefully, we never have to. So far, there has hasn't been any respiratory issues, but they could happen. This was only Chloe's fourth time eating peanut butter.

Dr. Vogler said when he first started with the practice the allergy was rare. Now it's very common and there's no explanation. I did eat peanuts and peanut butter while I was pregnant but the Dr said there's no findings that eating peanuts while pregnant causes the allergy.

There's a resource and we need to get familiar with called the Food Allergy network.

Pictures of Chloe with the first reaction at 15 months (She has pink eye here too, but you can see small hives on her face)


The hives as they were popping up at 2 years old. They eventually covered about 50% of her torso.