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hi there, i found out today from the dr that my son is allergic to Vegemite and came with a rash from head to toe. I was wondering if anyone here has had same thing happen did u ever brave it again if so what age??? what is your experiences with it? i am sorta scared to try anything else new.
That is strange! Cant say I have ever heard of it before sorry.
Did the doctor say what in the vegemite he was a allergic to exactly? I wonder if it is a yeast intolerance or something?
Try googling it and see if you can work out what it is he is allergic to - maybe Promite or MightyMight are made differently and wont have the allergen or the volume of allergen in them?
Good luck...sorry not much help...Hopefully someone more helpful will come by! lol
Hope the little man is ok though!
hey limeslice..
i started googling but havnt finished so far kids have only had spots/rash on face or cheeks so the fact josiah was covered head to toe brings high concern to me today they are all gone :)
i will be avoiding promite, marmite.
My niece gets a rash from vegemite (9 months) and we have decided it is yeast sensitivity. There really is nothing else particularly in it. The plan is to wait a few months and then try it again. It is brewers yeast - so different to that in bread, but could make her ability to drink beer in the future a challenge if she stays sensitive ;)
did your neice get a rash just on face? i think the fact he had it all over concerns me to try again.:
Yep - just on the face so far but we aren't pushing our luck by giving it again for a while. How old is DS??
hrmm thats what i have found to online ONLY children with it on thier face NOT whole body so i find that very alarming.:
If its an allergy, its normally a protein that is the allergen. otherwise its a food sensitivity/intolerance.
I think its a bit odd that your Dr has said your son is allergic to a product rather than a specific ingredient or food.
How did it happen - i.e. were you at home and you have him son, rash appeared, you went to the doctors and it was diagnosed?
Or had you had allergy testing done, and that was one of the results?
Vegemite ingredients are: Yeast extract, salt, mineral salt, (508, 509) malt extract, natural colour, (150) vegetable extract, thiamine(E), riboflavin, niacin.
Have you noticed any other foods at all that your son has had even a remote reaction to? Have you given him vegemite before, or was it the first time?
Id be thinking its a reaction to yeast, malt or the colour thats in it.
I think Id ask for a referral to an allergy specialist to work out what specifically he is reacting to, that way you can eliminate other foods as well that may cause the same reaction.
hi there ray ray
well i fed my 6 month old some Vegemite bread and marg he had never had the Vegemite, and to be honest i have not really tried many things with him. i then put him in car to take kids to school 30 mins later his face was red and had rash on it. i was on my way anyway to get him immunized and when i arrived at drs he was covered tip to toe with it that quickly. Dr looked at him and said its an allergy whats changed i said he tried vegemite and she said well thats it.
Squidipa, vegemite has a common allergen in it - preservative 220 - google it. There is a website you can go to to check out preservatives etc and that one is written in red writing and it is recommended to limit, or eliminate it for that reason. I actually started a thread about the same thing nearly 12mths ago when my youngest had a milkd rash reaction after his first time with vegemite. He was fine the second time though.
ooh i knew there was one in there. Sorry Squidipa, I didnt mean to question you, have tickers off at work so wasnt sure bubs age either.
trillian, I wonder why the ingredients list I got didnt have that preservative in it?
Is that the one thats in breads as well? Or a diffrernt one?
yep, it's a big nasty in a lot of things. On my jar of vegemite, it has it as 'natural colour 150 (contains preservative 220)'
eta - this is the website I was talking about alladditives I have been trying to avoid sulphites with Alister cause of the earlier reaction, even though he was fine the second time as allergies can often appear after a culmanative effect. I wouldn't give him dried fruits at all either as there are very few brands that don't use sulphites - even the ones in the health food isle do.
I agree with Trillian.. it'll be the P220. I'm a chef for a child care centre and allergins and sensitivities are always a concern.
We've recently started a 3yo boy who has an issue with P220, so no vegemite for him..and no processed cheese. Like Kraft Singles or Bega Slices. Stick to the proper cheese, if you want sliced, try Mainland.
Marmite doesn't have P220 in it, so that is what I offer as an alternative to this particular boy.
IMO rather than subjecting your boy to the painful allergin tests, try an elimination diet of exluding the P220 and P282 (found in bread). Most bakery fresh bread is P282 free.
Also, most children grow out of their allergies by the time they are 5. I would hold off for a while before trying him again on the P220.
Hope this helps.
wow thanks and thanks trillian tooo ill go look at that site....He has been fine on wholemeal bread so far but ill have to look out i guess.... what other things have that in it:
Preservatives are in nearly every processed food item you buy these days. When you next go shopping read the labels and you'll be surprised at how much food 220 is in. Look for alternatives that don't have it in it and use fresh, unprocessed food wherever you can
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thanks trillian :)
cottees are notorious for their preservatives...one of them they use is also used as an industrial cleaner...I cant drink the cordial, gives me chronic blood noses.
Cant eat coloured mentos or skittles anymore either, the colours give me migraines.
Glad you were able to figure it out so easily though - good you were going to the dr!
Also yeast extract and vegetable extract are hidden sources of MSG. It is "natural" MSG, so not the highly refined stuff, but nonetheless most people who are sensitive to MSG will have some sort of reaction to it. I had to avoid vegemite for years due to this, but lately I seem a little more tolerant to it.
wow, thanks for that Limey.:
for the original poster, i was going to say, we have just switched to a vegemite alternative, called VEGESPREAD. in a jar of the healthy food section in coles or woollies. a little stickier to spread.
i was told by some people that it was like vegemite but WITHOUT the preservatives and additives in it. But i must check if it's got yeast in it.
i agree with others, it would have been more useful for your doc to tell you WHICH ingredient in vegemite set off your child, not just the product (cos it has multiple ingredients in it).
glad to read all this talk about 220. that will stick in my brain now, to help me work out what NOT to buy at supermarket.
if i read a whole stack of numbers to avoid, i forget them all.
but if i just hear about ONE, i tend to remember that.
last time i read a helpful thread like this, i rmember being told 330 was just citric acid, not too bad at all (for most people).
Gigi have you visited the fed up site it has a list you can print off and keep in your purse for shopping trips.
Lime - the big packet of smarties now have natural colours - yeah. Cotties and GC suck in cordial - they get rid of one thing but not the other so they might have no artifucal colours but have preservatives or vise versa - grrr I am getting a little over "magic coridal" after nearly a year now :-)I have a reaction to vegemite that I only realised after doing our elimination diet causes headaches and shortness of breath after about 30 min as I'm sensitive to MSG
Oh also to the OP
the fact that your bub had it from head to toe to me sounds like he had a systemic reaction to it, from what I call a rash is what the body does when it findsan allergen and takes it to the surface to eliminate it - my DS actually gets a rash when he gets some colds and flus as this is how hs immune system behaves.
Those who get it around their face sounds more like a contact rash.
Hey Ladies,
Great thread - I'm sure this will help many Mums. Vegemite is a notorious allergen, mainly due to the yeast, 220 (sulphur dioxide) and malt. Because your son's rash was all over his body, I tend to agree that it is most likely from the sulphur dioxide.
And Gigi - I am a huge advocate of VEGESPREAD by Freedom Foods. No yeast, no gluten, much less salt, and from memory, preservative free. A much healthier option, and most families find that vegemite is a distant memory after a couple of weeks.
Squidipa - I would still hold off on introducing such foods to your little guy - if he's showing some signs of food sensitivities, I'd take it slow in opening up the world of solid foods to him.
All the best
xxx
I'll have to check that out next time I'm in town.