She did has it once but it wasn't as bad as today. Any experience here on if it is going to pass or is it a food we have to cross from her diet? She doesn't have any allergies that we know of and she loves strawberries.
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My daughter woke up this morning with a pretty bad rash on one side of her face, her neck and back. The only food she had yesterday who could have gave her this is most likely strawberries.
She may well have to stop eating then altogether, however try a small portion which she might be able to tolerate. It's was a fairly common allergy when I was at school, long before allergies were trendy
It does not have to be strawberries but the product that has been used on them. They are very porous and apparently soak up whatever chemical treatment is used, washing it won't cut it sometimes. Try strawberries from a different farm-producer, organic ones, etc.
Such products are used on other fruits so if there has been no past reaction or similar reactions with other fruit it is unlikely to be this. Strawberries have a reputation for allergic reactions in kids (which is why they say you shouldn't give them to babies under 12 months).
My niece is also reactive to strawberries as well as passion fruit (apparently they contain the same allergen) but there is a chance she'll grow out of it.
Just beware because the reactions can get worse before they get better.
The thing is last summer she had a little rash and didn't think much of it but still made the connection. Yesterday, she ate a lot of them and this morning...
She is 5.5 years old, by the way. She didn't have it when she was a baby.
So to be on the safe side, I will tell the school and make sure she doesn't eat them anymore until I don't know when.
Hubby told me his niece had allergies to watermelon when she was my dauther's age and apparently her face became like a melon, very swollen. I don't think she has problems with it anymore and she is now a young adult.
It's true strawberries are high on allergen scale, kiwi as well, etc. But if it is in fact some treatment, other fruit washes off easily, strawberries don't - it goes right inside since they do not have a skin. We have had some cheap Spanish strawberries here past few weeks, that even I was scratching after eating them, and I never get allergic reaction to nada.
(I can't see strawberries anymore, ate 2kg basket of those last week since nobody else was too excited about them, ugh..but who wouldn't buy it for 5 euro)
But in this case, we would have had it too, no?
It depends. I was scratching, had a mild rash with little white bumps on arms and fingers, and a few on my face and side of my neck, my kid was ok. But I ate almost 2 kilos of them, and my kid ate only a few.
Reaction to chemical products is as individual as actual fruit allergy.
Where did they come from? If they were from the EU the pesticides / fertilisers are pretty stringently controlled. Not sure so much from outside the EU, though.
Grapes, apricots, raspberries and other soft summer fruits are just as porous as strawberries so if she eats them with no reaction, I would look at the strawberry itself as the culprit.
Obviously it's impossible to know for sure without an allergy test so you would have to see her doctor for a conclusive answer.
In the meantime, I'd avoid them, as well as anything naturally flavoured with strawberries.
This sounds like a reaction to the strawberries to me - and the unfortunate thing is humans often crave most the very things that set off a reaction until one is old and wise enough to just say "NO".
I reacted to strawberries as a child - not one or two - but eating the better part of the juicy sweet lot. With an allergic reaction the symptoms get worse if the body repeatedly meets the allergen as defenses are up. Was her tongue "itchy" as well? I would completely avoid them for an extended time, then offer just 1-2 and see what happens. She may even lose her taste for them if her body "remembers".
I agree with this. It's best not to take any risks especially with kids.
That's not a fact to rely on at all. EU recalled strawberries from Poland last year, for example, for the chemical crap that got used on them and reactions people showed. Not all the pesticides or fertlisers are the same for all fruits nor do producers of raspberries (eg. comparably porous skin) automatically use the same treatment, or produce both strawberries and raspberries.
I would also think first about fruit allergy, but wouldn't rule out a reaction to chemical treatment.
The allergy battery test I have gone through did not contain specifically pesticides nor fertilisers. I would suggest OP to contact a dept of allergology to see if her child can be tested for strawberries and other typical allergens. Mine was covered by insurance.
Strawberries are from Spain.
I think the "bad berry" here is the strawberry fruit itself, not the origin (despite variations in cultivation w/pesticides etc). If however, a group of people ate the same berries and several (who had no allergic history) broke out in hives, etc one might suspect those particular Spanish berries.
It is really hard to stop a child from eating something they like, and even more so when it is a healthy food but with any luck you can minimise further unpleasant after-effects, and possibly added intolerances.