My one year old son has many food allergies and intolerances which we've discovered through testing and food diary, etc. With a lot of time and food elimination, we have gone from severe eczema all over his face/scalp and some body to moderate all around his mouth/chin and a few tiny spots here and there. I've been working to add foods to our diets. He is mostly breastfeeding with just a little solids.
His first birthday is next week, so I want to make him a cake. I bought some coconut flour from Tropical Traditions and made some muffins with it. I have been eating coconut oil for a couple of weeks and it seemed to be OK through me.
I put some coconut flour on his lip while I was making the muffins. There was no reaction after an hour, and we let him eat about a half a small muffin.
Shortly after he ate the muffin, his lip swelled up right where I had put the flour and his face swelled slightly. His cheeks got red and flushed. He was also acting a little strange, sort of subdued. This was his first non-eczema reaction (that I've noticed), so we got nervous and called the ambulance. We have an Epi-Pen, but didn't see a need to use it before they showed up.
The EMT's didn't find any respiratory issues, but we took him to the ER just to be safe. My concern was that the reaction was just from the flour, and we might see a second reaction from the muffin an hour after that.
After about 3 hours, the swelling went down and he looked normal again. The doctor told us to give him Benadryl when we got home, so we did that and he seems back to his normal self today.
My sister baked the muffins with me, and she mentioned that the raw flour changes form when it is baked. I wondered if this could be a situation where the raw food can't be tolerated, but the cooked food is OK. I'm not planning to try again, but I thought I'd see what other Moms have to say about Coconut oil and raw and cooked coconut products.
For info, his other IGE allergies are walnuts, pecans, cashew, pistachio, filbert, almond, peanuts, soy, dairy, sesame, flaxseed, wheat, and corn. He was tested IGG, IGE, and ALCAT for coconut, and it was all negative.
The other ingredients in the muffins were egg (he eats directly OK), sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar, and coconut oil. These ingredients were also new to him, but since he reacted right where I put the flour on his lip, I believe that it was the coconut flour.
What do you guys think?
His first birthday is next week, so I want to make him a cake. I bought some coconut flour from Tropical Traditions and made some muffins with it. I have been eating coconut oil for a couple of weeks and it seemed to be OK through me.
I put some coconut flour on his lip while I was making the muffins. There was no reaction after an hour, and we let him eat about a half a small muffin.
Shortly after he ate the muffin, his lip swelled up right where I had put the flour and his face swelled slightly. His cheeks got red and flushed. He was also acting a little strange, sort of subdued. This was his first non-eczema reaction (that I've noticed), so we got nervous and called the ambulance. We have an Epi-Pen, but didn't see a need to use it before they showed up.
The EMT's didn't find any respiratory issues, but we took him to the ER just to be safe. My concern was that the reaction was just from the flour, and we might see a second reaction from the muffin an hour after that.
After about 3 hours, the swelling went down and he looked normal again. The doctor told us to give him Benadryl when we got home, so we did that and he seems back to his normal self today.
My sister baked the muffins with me, and she mentioned that the raw flour changes form when it is baked. I wondered if this could be a situation where the raw food can't be tolerated, but the cooked food is OK. I'm not planning to try again, but I thought I'd see what other Moms have to say about Coconut oil and raw and cooked coconut products.
For info, his other IGE allergies are walnuts, pecans, cashew, pistachio, filbert, almond, peanuts, soy, dairy, sesame, flaxseed, wheat, and corn. He was tested IGG, IGE, and ALCAT for coconut, and it was all negative.
The other ingredients in the muffins were egg (he eats directly OK), sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar, and coconut oil. These ingredients were also new to him, but since he reacted right where I put the flour on his lip, I believe that it was the coconut flour.
What do you guys think?
Definitely sounds like an IgE reaction to me. And yes- cooking can definitely change the proteins enough that a food is tolerated cooked but not raw.
So she seems ok with eggs as long as they are really well cooked (hard boiled), but not raw or even cooked into things (like waffles- I guess they don't cook long/hot enough to break down the proteins?)
