So yesterday the peanut (15 months) got into a bowl full of cashews at his great grandma's house. He was stuffing them in his mouth and having a great time, so I let him. He's had almonds before without issue, and we haven't tried him on peanuts but I was pretty confident that he didn't have a nut allergy. (Of course, because then I wouldn't have let him get close to those cashews, but whatever.) Anyway. Yesterday afternoon he started getting a nasty diaper rash- worse than he's ever had before. At first I thought it was a candida rash, and was interested but not concerned, except that it's not really candida season and my own candida is the same as usual. The rash got worse and worse, and when I changed before bed it looked pretty bad. All over his diaper area, red, almost bloody in one little spot, and clearly very painful. He's never been sensitive to the wipes before but he was screaming when I wiped him just now. SCREAMING, like it stung really bad. It looked like it stung to wipe him. It was also very sensitive to touch, but the diaper rash cream soothed it almost immediately.
He had chewed up cashew all over his mouth, but there's not contact rash there, just on the diaper area. He was also touching and playing with the cashews and the spat out pulverized cashew, but he doesn't have a rash on his hands. he probably ate the equivalent of 2-3 cashews. He's been eating and drinking as usual, so I don't think there's any internal rash.
I hate to think that I need to take him to the doctor again, for the fourth time in three weeks (my climber has been getting into some trouble lately....). He's going to hate doctors after this. I'm hoping the diaper rash cream will work it's magic and this will all be another close call. Of course, we won't let him near cashews (or pistachios, it turns out) for a loooong while, but please, please let it not be a nut allergy.
This morning he still had no other symptoms, but his diaper rash was still pretty bad. The rash around his anus looked better, although it's always hard to tell after a night of diaper cream. his poor scrotum though- that had gotten worse. instead of one little bloody spot, he now has several. It's less sensitive than it was last night, but it's still pretty bad. We switched over to cloth wipes with water to try to avoid the stinging and that seems to help with diaper changes. I'm still fairly convinced that it was the cashews, sweets thinks it was oranges because the peanut ate a lot of oranges yesterday. Our plan is to lay off all nuts for awhile, and go easy on the oranges. I don't want to do a challenge with nuts, But I may do a challenge with oranges just to rule that out.
So my question: For those of you with nut-allergy kids, what did it look like the first time it showed up? What did you do about it? Does this sound like a nut allergy or something else?
He had chewed up cashew all over his mouth, but there's not contact rash there, just on the diaper area. He was also touching and playing with the cashews and the spat out pulverized cashew, but he doesn't have a rash on his hands. he probably ate the equivalent of 2-3 cashews. He's been eating and drinking as usual, so I don't think there's any internal rash.
I hate to think that I need to take him to the doctor again, for the fourth time in three weeks (my climber has been getting into some trouble lately....). He's going to hate doctors after this. I'm hoping the diaper rash cream will work it's magic and this will all be another close call. Of course, we won't let him near cashews (or pistachios, it turns out) for a loooong while, but please, please let it not be a nut allergy.
This morning he still had no other symptoms, but his diaper rash was still pretty bad. The rash around his anus looked better, although it's always hard to tell after a night of diaper cream. his poor scrotum though- that had gotten worse. instead of one little bloody spot, he now has several. It's less sensitive than it was last night, but it's still pretty bad. We switched over to cloth wipes with water to try to avoid the stinging and that seems to help with diaper changes. I'm still fairly convinced that it was the cashews, sweets thinks it was oranges because the peanut ate a lot of oranges yesterday. Our plan is to lay off all nuts for awhile, and go easy on the oranges. I don't want to do a challenge with nuts, But I may do a challenge with oranges just to rule that out.
So my question: For those of you with nut-allergy kids, what did it look like the first time it showed up? What did you do about it? Does this sound like a nut allergy or something else?
