when to try peanuts?

[Olive]

sophie is now almost 19 months and im yet to try peanuts or peanut butter, there is no real history of food allergies in the family ive just never got around to trying sophie with it, so how do i go about it? just give hera sandwich with peanut butter?

[Phteven]

We gace Yasin apeanut butter sandwich when he was 2. He loved it and had no problems.
Imran started himself on peanut butter sandwiches by nicking Yasin's when he was a bit older than a year.
I decided after that to keep feeding him peanut butter although it was long before the recomened time because an allergic reaction is the immune system having a spack attack over the wrong thing and it's thought to be the frequent exposure to trace amounts of peanuts that makes it such a comon allergen so once he'd had it I though that full exposure was the best path to follow. So far no issues.

[Olive]

might try it this morning

[christy]

I thought it was 2 years for peanut butter? Maybe I'm confusing it with other stuff though LOL.

When I trialled peanut butter with Matilda, I tried a quarter of a peanut butter & jam sandwich (the american in me :P) she didn't like it. So I tried it again later, and she still doesn't like it. Matilda didn't test positive to peanuts when she had her allergy testing.. so with Jovie I was planning on the same thing, trialling 1/4 sandwich and seeing how she goes.

With allergies its either an instant reaction, or gradual... so start with a tiny amount and then the next day a bit more etc etc...

[christy]

I meant to add, I have a friend who has no history of allergy in their family, and their son has some severe allergies. So, sometimes it just happens.

[Phteven]

As far as I know it's 2 years.

[tiggerandpooh]

jols - aston LOVES peanut butter. He stole some of Laura's toast with it on... so introduction was before I had planned... but as they say best laid plans of mice and men often go right out the window...especially with no. 3

[Olive]

oh bugger didnt realise it was 2!! will waith then!! thanks chicks!

[MantaRay]

I think it's two for children without a history of food allergies, and 3 if they have other allergies. Jack has had a food allergy before so we waited until a month before he was 3 and he was fine. We haven't tried Tom yet.