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How To Know If Your Baby Is Allergic To Oatmeal Cereal. Other ways you can tell if your baby is allergic to oatmeal cereal include. If youre baby is actually allergic to oatmeal youll know all about it because any where it touches your babies skin will come out in a rash very quickly. Moms if your baby is having reactions to rice cereal I encourage you to look into Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome FPIES. Oat allergy is the bodys reaction to a protein found in oats called avenin.
Itching of the mouth or throat Swelling of the lips or throat. Skin that is blotchy and itchy. If your baby is allergic to infant oatmeal symptoms typically show up within two hours after eating the food. Signs your baby is having an allergic reaction to infant oatmeal include eczema hives diarrhea vomiting and difficulty breathing. If your lips tongue or throat start to swell up your oat allergy is probably more severe. If youre baby is actually allergic to oatmeal youll know all about it because any where it touches your babies skin will come out in a rash very quickly.
Thats yet another reason why many doctors assume the baby has a stomach bug or other viral infection rather than an allergic.
Rice cereal causes no allergies to most little ones. All rice cereal has either allergen so I got the oatmeal kind. Rice is binding meaning it absorbs water in the gut making stool hard to pass. One of the main signs of FPIES is a delayed reaction to the trigger food typically between two and four hours after ingestion. Common symptoms of an allergic reaction include. However if your baby is allergic to oats then they will display symptoms such as vomiting nausea skin hives abdominal pain lethargy and swelling of the face.