How can you tell if your baby have pet & food allergies?

October 2nd, 2003 by admin

pet allergies
koU-c asked:


1. How can you tell if your baby have pet & food allergies?
2. What are the symptoms/things you should look for in both allergies?
3. Have you have any experience with these two?

My 5 month old is having a lot of acne. It looks like acne. Lately, she has been producing a lot of saliva, and she is always sticking her hand in her mouth too. She is also touching her face with her hand a lot. She seems too have acne on her forehead, chin, cheeks, under neck, and starting on her back. She don’t seem to have a fever, i took her temp(98 F). No poopy problem. No throwups. We do have 2 small dogs, they are outside dogs.

I just want to get some input on Yahoo!Answer before calling her doc. Thanks a lot.

2 Responses to “How can you tell if your baby have pet & food allergies?”

  1. PumpkinMom Says:
    October 5th, 2003 at 3:23 pm

    You didnt state what foods she has tried, so cant help to much there.

    As for salavating..sounds like she might be teething.

    Baby Acne is normal!

  2. duey Says:
    October 8th, 2003 at 3:04 pm

    Baby acne seems a little strange at 5 months- I know the first few months is common due to the mother’s hormones in the last trimester (so my pediatrician told me). It could very well be a food allergy. My mother watched my son starting at 3 months and I would go pick him up and his cheek would be all red on some days and fine on others. Come to find out my son is severely allergic to eggs, nuts..etc and the days that his cheeks were all red and bumpy were the same days my mother was making egg salad sandwiches for her and my dad. If your baby is not eating any common allergy foods but you are breastfeeding and you are eating certain foods that she could be allergic to, this could be a trigger. Another thing to be careful for is if you eat something and kiss or touch your baby. My son is now 2-1/2 and still gets hives on his face if we touch or kiss him accidently after eating anything with eggs, peanuts, shellfish… I think your doctor should be able to refer you to an allergist and they can do a scratch test with common allergy foods- although its not 100% it should give you an idea. Funny thing with food allergies, they don’t show up until the person is exposed a few times first to the allergen. Pancakes was my son’s first exposure and he was fine. Then I gave him scrambled eggs at 9 months and he swelled like a balloon with hives all over his face- from there his 3rd (accidental) exposure caused his throat to close and thank God I had an epipen. I am not trying to scare you but food allergies seem to be extremely common in this generation of children, so I wouldn’t rule it out.