On August 10th we had our first trip to the ER. Prior to that it was a great weekend, Brandon and I played in a softball tournament Saturday and Sunday morning, and then we were going to run to the grocery store after Morgan's afternoon nap. We decided to give her a graham cracker with some peanut butter as a snack (the first time she's had peanut butter). Within a couple minutes she acted like she was having trouble, and we figured it was because it was dry cracker and sticky peanut butter. In about 5 minutes she was acting stranger and dropped the rest of her snack, which is not normal. Shortly after she started throwing up. We called the on-call nurse for the pediatrician and after going through a few questions she said it would be best to take her to the ER, so off we went.
They couldn't get the prednisone and Benadryl down and within about an hour her tummy was a giant red welt and the rash was extending down her limbs.They finally got meds in her to calm down the reaction. She was sure a trooper.
We followed up with her pediatrician and an allergist. Given the certainty of the cause he did not do any testing at the time. When she reaches 18-24 months we will have her levels tested, as well as test if she is allergic to other nuts. Until then, definitely no peanut butter and no tree nuts either. There's a chance she will grow out of it, and we sure hope so. Until then we'll binge on peanut butter after she's in bed.
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