I just accidentally gave me 2 year old a sandwich with real butter in it 😭

She ate the whole thing so now I’m a little worried but her allergy test said it’s a mild allergy so I’m trying to stay calm and just wait to see any side effects but I just needed to share with people who will understand 😭 what would you do? Is it dramatic to call 111 or would you just wait and see

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My 7 month old was given yogurt by the MIL the other week. I just monitored her but she was fine apart from a full body rash. She is the same with the level of allergy

If it's not an anaphylaxis reaction I wouldn't be worried at all, they wouldn't be able to do anything anyways beside monitor them, just expect potential original symptoms to reoccur n maybe a little under the weather for for a day or 2. Could be that they don't react to it at all and u find out that they may have grown out of it x

There is no such thing as a "mild" allergy. Which test did you get?

Given that you got time to type this, it is not an emergency and nothing really to check until it appears, so I would wait and see.

The wheels don't predict severity of reactions. They tell the likelihood of an allergy diagnosis. Did they diagnose milk allergy?

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 does it matter the technicality of it? Clearly mum has been doing dairy free for a reason even if it's not an official diagnosis but just her opinion of potential milk allergy which is still more then reason enough to make her child dairy free and also makes her well with in her right to be concerned if her child ate something she believes or has been told she's allergic to. She's most likely under medical professionals guidance in regards to her child's allergy and how to proceed, she didn't ask for opinions or judgement on what other parents deem as a severe enough reaction for her child to be deemed allergic in anyone else's eyes

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 Interesting! She’s been under the nutritionist since 4m old for CMPA so I assume it’s diagnosed? They just told us to go ahead with the milk ladder since the reaction to the test was small, but the ladder has been causing her eczema to flare so we haven’t had much luck with it

@incognito you don't have to defend or explain ur child's allergy to anyone who isn't a medical professional x

Yes, don’t worry in the U.K. the NHS do classify the allergy as mild, moderate or severe.
With a mild one don’t worry. If she’s old enough you can give her baby piriton or equivalent if she gets a skin rash etc.
Take her to a pharamacist if you’re worried and you can google the signs to look out for.
But don’t beat yourself up, easily done! They would have given you an epi pen if they were concerned anything bad could happen.

@Willow actually the "technicality", how you call it, matters. 🙄

These type of tests give false positives more often than not. They are even more unreliable on babies, that arm is the one of a baby. And there are different types of allergies, the most common doesn't need a test.

If that toddler just ate butter and is fine immediately after, it discards the type of allergy that requires SPT. That wheel is not even a positive. That is why this mum was told to start the milk ladder, otherwise they would have advised differently.

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 my LO was diagnosed with CMPA at 7 weeks old. She has had a reaction to every exposure to milk since but her allergy test showed negative. It was described to me by two medical professionals (the nurse who did the testing and her paediatrician) as a mild allergy. Maybe things are described differently in Scotland?

If you meet with a private allergist, in the UK or else, but a real allergist, they will never refer to an allergy as mild, moderate or severe allergy.

@Kristina what were the symptoms?

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 she never said that she was told to start the milk ladder the giving of diary was an accident. There are different types of cmpa allergies and there are different severitys of that allergy within that, for the children that fall under a certain criteria you can get allergy testing done specifically for dairy allergy, or you can pay for it to get done privately. But they do test specifically for that it's not usually an all round allergy test as they aren't routinely offered. Babies can be allergic to milk and still not have a reaction to a skin prick test. And the "technically" of it does matter, just not to u, it's only relevant to mum, the child and doctors

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 so in your eyes u either go in anaphylatic shock with ur allergy otherwise ur not allergic because that would what be described as a severe reaction

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 full body rash, diarrhoea and being sick. But please don’t try and diagnose other peoples baby’s when trained professionals in that field have already done so

@Willow not really, never mentioned anything of what you said.

@Kristina where did I give a diagnosis?

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 u said there is no such thing as different levels of allergy and a "real" allergist would never say that

@Willow glad you got to google something quickly. But you still don't seem to understand what was not congruent of what the OP mentioned. As Google told you, tests are for some type of allergies and if her baby ate butter and seems fine, they don't have the type of allergy that needs tests (but goggle didn't tell you that...)

Of course different tests are available everywhere, some are not even backed by science, which is why I asked.

And yes, the OP mentioned she was advised to start the milk ladder herself. Another sign that this is the type of allergy which doesn't require a test, but yet she got a test (for reasons I can imagine but have nothing to do with the symptoms or type of allergy).

Why did all this get you flustered?

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 as Willow said you claimed there is no such thing as a mild allergy, which there is. My partner has a mild pollen allergy where he gets a little itchy, I have a moderate allergy because I struggle to breathe with high pollen levels. Some people have a severe allergy where they can’t go outside because of pollen

@Kristina we are talking about food allergies, not pollen allergies. And still, never gave a diagnosis, I raised questions.

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 please point out where she said she deliberately started the milk ladder and gave her child a dairy product on purpose. My baby was literally offered alleegist test under the NHS and I was told what that entailed and tested for and that he can still be allergic to milk but not have a reaction to pin prick test. And yet again u still cannot answer the why the hell it's any of ur business how peoples children are diagnosed with cmpa or whether it meets ur standards no one asked for ur opinion on whether or not u believe that there baby has cmpa

@Willow please point out where did I say all that.

@𝔾𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 I find this confusing as my baby was diagnosed with a severe milk allergy.

OP you don’t need to call 111. If it’s a non-ige allergy symptoms can take up to 72 hours to start so it’s just a case of monitoring. If her allergy is mild hopefully it will only be a mild flare up of symptoms.

I just accidentally gave me 2 year old a sandwich with real butter in it 😭

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