Food allergies in weaning

My baby is 6 months and we started weaning a week ago and he was perfectly fine, but yesterday he had an allergic reaction. We went to A&E, have been prescribed antihistamines and been referred to an allergy clinic but was just wondering if anyone had any similar experience or any advice as to what we do now? The dr says to just keep going but we are a bit wary of doing that! He tried baby porridge, carrot, sweet potato, normal potato, peas, parsnip, pear and pitta bread and all was fine, then yesterday he tried cooked apple and had a tiny bit of a banana then had the reaction. We went to hospital after this. Today we thought we’d go back to basics and give him baby porridge again as he was fine with that, but he reacted the same way, if not worse! We have spoke to a dr again after this who said to just keep trying other things but I think it might be better to have a few days off? Has anyone had reactions to bananas and porridge even when it’s been fine before? Or any advice on other foods to try which he may not react to? I’m just a bit scared of giving him more if he’s now going to react to everything now, whilst we wait to see the allergy specialist?

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last week

@Juliette just banana for me but he hasn't reacted to things that have a bit of banana in them so I'm not sure what happened. Did the baby porridge contain any banana in it? Banana seems to be in a lot of things even if it isn't a banana flavoured food e.g. strawberry Greek style yoghurt from ASDA has banana in

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last week

I’ve checked and it doesn’t seem to have banana in it but I’m thinking maybe it could be a secondary reaction as there may have still been some banana in my system

last week

My little boy appears to have an allergy to banana. I have given it to him twice in his porridge and both times he has vomitted and had signs of allergic reaction. I don't know whether the doctor can do anything or test at this age (8 months) so I'm just not giving him anything banana x

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Has he reacted to anything else? It’s a bit odd that my baby reacted to banana and porridge separately as they aren’t related in any way x