Rice allergy with infant? ?!

it might not be the rice buddy ... if it's a highly processed product it could very well be a preservative, flavoring etc...thats been added to enhance it's appeal or prolong "shelf life"..... most packaged things my child has similar reactions to but her reactions are delayed by a few hours these days cos she's in grade school ..... it seems when you're brand new the reactions are far quicker .... do some sleuthing and find out the ingredients ... could be lactose or a flavoring ... look for any chemicals on the ingredients list starting with an E ..... E followed by numbers .... that indicates there's sulfites in the product ..... less than 5% of the population will react to them but they fry your digestion and shizz neural functioning in the unlucky few.... or should i say lucky... lucky you realise they're in there.

try her on organic rice cereal from your local health food store and see if she reacts the same.

pricey but hey..... it's her health and your sanity.

oh and there's a book out there by Julie EAdy called "Additive Alert".... brilliant read and very enlightening... buy it.

bless u
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Rice isn't a common allergy, but it's definitely possible. I'd be looking for contamination first, though, like was suggested above. I had no idea how much in our food is contaminated by OTHER stuff in our food until we had kids with food allergies. :-(

Gluten (wheat, rye, barley, and oats) is a common contaminant of many grains - you might want to look up celiac disease and gluten intolerance. A warning, though: most tests for this have a high false negative in infants. And honestly...I hope that this is it for you. It would be MUCH easier for you in the long run to have to avoid gluten than to have to avoid rice (I'll mention later).

Also, if she's allergic to rice, the chances that she'll have issues with other grains is higher - rice is in the grass family, and as such is also related to: wheat, rye, barley, teff, job's tears, sorghum, oats, sugar cane, and bamboo.

And if she IS allergic to rice? You will want to do some research, pronto, because rice will be hard to avoid. Since there are fewer allergies to it, you will find it in a LOT of medications, and it can be really difficult to track down.There are no warnings that say 'also processed on equipment that processes rice.' And you'll need to find out what ingredients are derived from rice or processed with it, too. I'd think about gluten issues first - it's much more common - but if rice is the issue, I'd see an allergist who is knowledgeable about food allergies, if you can.

Some safe psuedo-grains, by the way: Buckwheat, amaranth, and quinoa. These are seeds, not true grains. You can whirl these puppies in a blender until they are a fine powder and make a porridge from them, instead - although it won't be fortified that way. Quinoa and amaranth are full proteins, though, and high in iron.

yes anything is possible with leaky gut syndrome it is very uncommon though but so is anaphalactic shock still it is real just check to see if there was any other flavorings citric acid corn preservatives sulphates ETC as rice is int us ally a allergenic grain but anything is possible