Hives after baby rice?

Hi

Looking for some advice for friend with 5.5 month old. My GF decided yesterday to try her DD2 on some baby rice however the poor little thing broke out in hives all round her mouth and neck and eyes. Not sure if it was immediate or within a few hours. It sounds like an allergic reaction however would have thought baby rice was one of the lowest allergic reaction foods. What should she do give up and try again in months time or try something else. i wouln't have thought age should have had anything to do with the reaction but is it something she should get checked out before she embarks on the food journey. None of friends who are Mums have had had any allergy issues so we can't really give her much advice - other than obvious don't give her baby rice!

Any advice you can give me to give her would be great.

Cheers NW3

there was an article shared on fb yesterday about a baby getting quite sick from rice

http://guggiedaly.blogspot.com.au/20...-rice.html?m=1

sometimes babies react early but are ok with the foods in a few months. i would get an appt with mchn, dr or pediatric dietician and talk it through. the dieticians have a good website where you can search for one near your location.

Yes, you can be allergic to rice. The paed thinks my son my have FPIES to rice and possibly pear aswell. That article was scary but does happen.

DS1 reacted to lots of foods that way initially but we kept giving the food to him in small amounts and he doesn't react anymore.

My friends bubba gets a rash around mouth still from it and she is almost a year old she's also allergic to dairy and quite a few other things and she has had to cut down on those things in her own diet so she doesn't react to breast milk

Yes, it's possibly a reaction to the rice. There are other things in the cereal, also, so she may need to investigate further. Medical advice is probably warranted.

Just an update. Spoke to my GF today after she had been to the docs. Looks like it was a reaction to the Karicare formula that she used to make up the baby rice. DD is fully breastfed. I had just assumed that she had used either water or BM when making up the rice.

Thanks for all for their advice. She will keep close eye on other reactions though as little mite may be a touch sensitive.

Ah! Was there any particular reason she was using formula instead of breast milk? Sounds like it might be a dairy allergy, perhaps?

Don't know it as by text today as I was working. Will see her Friday as its my day off and ask her then. May just have been easier. Her DD won't take a bottle so she has given up expressing as it was just going to waste. Despite this it didn't even occur to me to ask what she had used as just assumed she had expressed it was breast milk.

As an aside her DD has suffered from quite a few colds, pretty nasty ones, since she's been born so I had suggested that she raise the issue of allergies or intolerences with the doc to see if my GFs diet could flow through to her DD and cause the snottyness cough etc which might be caused by an allergy? Does that sound like something that could happen?

Sounds like something to talk to the doctor about, yeah. Would proably be good to find out more before she starts introducing anything else. Hope her daughter is doing well now