[Wugmama]

So my baby just reacted to peas. My other child is allergic to peanuts. And of course I just stocked up through azure not only on peas but also got a case each of organic canned pintos, garbanzos, kidneys and black beans. I myself love beans, and want to start incorporating them into our meals (cheap protein). And I had made soup recently w/pintos but the baby didn't each much of it. Now I'm afraid to eat the beans, or give them to her, because they are in the same family as peas.

The day she broke out she was also playing w/playdoh which I know contains wheat, so she could have just had some of that under her finger nails and gotten it in her mouth and I just thought it was the peas. I'm afraid to retry the peas though because she got hives immediately and I'm afraid the next reaction could be worse.

Can one have an intolerance to a food and have immediate hives? I thought maybe she had just had too many peas lately and her bucket was full so the next time she ate them she reacted. But then I'm thinking that maybe hives means actual allergy? She's never been tested.

Her list:
wheat and all gluten containing grains,
dairy,
corn,
soy,
eggs,
nightshade: tomatoes, peppers, paprika, potatoes, eggplant
peas
probably peanuts

TIA,
Tracy

 

[kjbrown92]

My DS is severe intolerance to peas and mild to green beans and kidney beans and peanuts, but can have black beans, great northern beans, and chickpeas. His are intolerances though, not allergies.

 

[Lady TS]

A year ago I tested postive(skin prick test) to peas, soy and peanuts(and a whole host of other allergens--many of them the same as your baby's).

Peanuts give me an itchy nose/throat and slight headache if I am merely smelling them. Haven't had any since I tested positive to let you know my response if I ate them.

I never would have guessed peas, but they came up as well. I do remember reacting immediately with itchy throat/ears after eating fresh peas off of the plants in the garden, though. Cooked peas, I don't remember reacting to them specifically.

Soy messed up my guts/digestion, and caused my skin to break out horribly on my face.

Since peanut allergy is in your family already, as well as soy and now possibly peas...I would probably lay off the legumes for awhile. And possibly, during a time of clearness/no reactions, trial peas again just to be sure it wasn't the wheat.

FTR-skin contact to my allergens causes me to react too. So it very well might have been the wheat for your dc.

Hope you are able to figure this out--I know it's no fun at all!

 

[changingseasons]

DD is severely reactive to peas of any kind, and tested positive (IgE) to peanuts, so I was also pretty paranoid of all legumes. But in the last month or two, I've tried black beans and pinto beans, and haven't had a reaction. (She didn't really like them and didn't eat much, but I ate a lot.) Of course, I'm not doing an official trial- I'm just doing them in a big rotation to avoid reactions, so I'm not sure if she would tolerate eating them every day.

I feel your pain on stocking up on possibly inedible food... I just opened my 25# bag of buckwheat groats from Azure and then finally figured out that I was reacting to them (gluten xcon probably).

 

[Wugmama]

Kathy, wait, your dd doesn't react to peas? Then my dd can't possibly! Shoot! She can't be my guide anymore!!!

CS, that is so sad. I called the company that azure gets their groats from. The guy told me that they were a small mill, and that coincidentally they were having someone visit their mill that day to see if the would qualify as gf based on their methods of cleaning. I got the impression that they weren't really following any mandated methods, and were uneducated about what it took to prevent xcon. They were just hoping to slide by. I asked him to call me back and let me know their results and he never did, so I'm guessing they failed.

What kind of testing did your dd have? Was it a blood draw rast test? we still haven't had any formal testing.

~Tracy

 

[changingseasons]

Interesting. I got a straight up "no- they're not GF" when I called last week. I guess they did fail then.

DD has had a RAST and SPT for the IgE stuff, and ELISA for IgG.

 

[LBMarie9]

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Originally Posted by changingseasons Interesting. I got a straight up "no- they're not GF" when I called last week. I guess they did fail then. DD has had a RAST and SPT for the IgE stuff, and ELISA for IgG.

we are buying some fod storage w/ our tax returns-

where can I get non xcon buckwheat groats, etc?

 

[Lady TS]

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Originally Posted by LBMarie9 we are buying some fod storage w/ our tax returns- where can I get non xcon buckwheat groats, etc?

They are not cheap or bulk, but IIRC the Pocono Cream of Buckwheat is on dedicated lines. Also, I think the Ancient Harvest Quinoa is too...you'd have to check to be sure.

I know that Bob's Red Mill and Hodgson(sp?) Mills have a lot of cross-contamination issues.

 

[Wugmama]

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I know that Bob's Red Mill and Hodgson(sp?) Mills have a lot of cross-contamination issues.

Really? I have never had problems (that I know of) w/Bob's, and I don't think I've heard of anyone else having problems. Have you yourself had problems, or have you just heard bad things?

TIA,
Tracy

 

[Wugmama]

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we are buying some fod storage

We just stopped by the bakery at Super Target yesterday and asked if they would save us some big frosting buckets w/lids that we could reuse for food storage.

I'm sure they wouldn't be as good as the gamma lids (whatever those are) but I think they will work out for my rice, flours and sucanat storage - I plan on going through the stuff at a steady rate. And hey, the price is right!

I'm getting brown rice flour through azure standard co-op. It is on sale right now, $27 for 25 lbs, plus 8.5% for shipping - beats the heck out of the shipping costs when they do it by weight! Also beats the heck out of the cost of 1.5 lbs of Bob's brown rice flour. It doesn't specifically say GF, but it is Lundberg, and from their website, I *think* all there stuff is GF.

~Tracy

 

[Lady TS]

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Originally Posted by Wugmama Really? I have never had problems (that I know of) w/Bob's, and I don't think I've heard of anyone else having problems. Have you yourself had problems, or have you just heard bad things? TIA, Tracy

Partly from experience(I suspected the Bob's Red Mill Buckwheat Flour to be tainted somehow with corn-it was a very subtle reaction, but it was there.) and also fellow corn-allergic people on the Avoiding Corn forum have reported problems with those two brands.

 

[LBMarie9]

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Originally Posted by Wugmama We just stopped by the bakery at Super Target yesterday and asked if they would save us some big frosting buckets w/lids that we could reuse for food storage. I'm sure they wouldn't be as good as the gamma lids (whatever those are) but I think they will work out for my rice, flours and sucanat storage - I plan on going through the stuff at a steady rate. And hey, the price is right! I'm getting brown rice flour through azure standard co-op. It is on sale right now, $27 for 25 lbs, plus 8.5% for shipping - beats the heck out of the shipping costs when they do it by weight! Also beats the heck out of the cost of 1.5 lbs of Bob's brown rice flour. It doesn't specifically say GF, but it is Lundberg, and from their website, I *think* all there stuff is GF. ~Tracy

whohooo-okay so one GF flour down-- 100 to go! I'll start a new thread (as soon as there aren't so many going around) but I want to get bulk, safe products--and I'm sure the mamas on here have already done their homework or could lend a helping hand (so it doesn't really matter if you buy 1 or 10 buckets at a time since it's by price right? I'll have to go jump on the b rice flour- okay is there a sticky abour this? like shelf life of GF whole groats, vs the flour, allergy friendly BULK places, etc? lmk so I don't start another) THANKS

sorry I'm watching the thread since i've sometimes "wondered" about beans for my son--but no huge reactions.

 

[kortner]

Wugmama - Have you ever tried putting some on her skin to see if there's a reaction? PP made me think of it. The 'Feeding an Allergic Baby' sticky has an idea, and I feel like one of those special diets has instructions for doing it (an over night thing - anyone recall???). Maybe you could try skin testing one of the other legumes you stocked up on?

I got IgG's on my ELISA to kidney, lima, and some others but NOT soy, pinto, and some others. I've been off all of them - I know they don't sit well for me.