Hi mamas.. I've been doing a lot of thinking about something that happened to my 17 month old daughter this weekend..
She had black beans at a friends house Saturday night for the first time.. loved them.. Well, Sunday she was acting off.. Hubby and I thought it was teething.. she wasn't eating a lot, etc.. but seemed happy with no fevers.. so we weren't concerned. That evening about an hour before bed she threw up.. ended up throwing up about 3x before she finally went to bed later than normal because she wasn't feeling well. Anyways, Sometime sunday we noticed she had a worsening diaper rash so we started putting medicated stuff on it.. well, today she didn't eat much (until this evening) and didn't really drink anything but still had wet diapers.. she ate a decent dinner plus a small snack after dinner.. seems to be in a really good and happy mood.. more like herself..
Is it possible she's allergic to the black beans?
p.s. daycare said there's been an intestinal thing going around and they've sent kids home with diarrhea
Awesome everyone thank you so much for the responses.. I will do some research on the food intolerances so I know what to look for :)
BTW, she's feeling better finally.. back to her old self, eating, playing and dancing :)
Sounds like the intestinal thing... food allergies are usually a rash, watery eyes, breathing issues, puffy face that usually develop within minutes of eating that food. I would also give her a small amount of black beans in a few weeks just to test it out.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-allergy/DS00082/DSECTION=s...
Sounds like she has a virus. If she had an allergic reaction, it would have
been much sooner.
I have an allergy to onions.... and they affect me the same way (vomiting and diarrhea), it usually hits me within a half an hour of eating them, and can last between just throwing up once and feeling better, to throwing up (and running to the bathroom) all night. It is possible that it could be an allergy, but the only way to be sure is like others have said, and feed them to her again. Good luck!
i would say it was the stomach illness. she would have had a reaction the same night.
The only way to know is to feed her black beans again. If she gets sick again, you'll know. If she doesn't, you know it's a new food that she liked, and you won't have to shy away from it.
Dawn
the ladies are right...food allergies are much more immediate. you'd know. sounds like a bug. glad she's feeling better!
While it might not be a food allergy/anaphylactic shock--they usually occur within minutes to an hour after ingesting the suspected food--she COULD have a food intolerance to black beans, the seasonings on them, or something else she ate. A food intolerance can take up to three to four days to "make itself known"--which then makes it hard to track back to discover what it is you ate that made you sick.
That happened to me when I was 10 years old. I was at a friend's house for a sleepover and ate peppermint Lifesavers candies. A few hours after I got home the next day, I came down with hives all over my body--huge ones. The only thing we could think of that I had eaten that I normally didn't eat was the peppermint candies. A few years later, I ate some spearmint Lifesavers candies. Again came down with hives.
Figured out I was allergic to anything in the mint family--peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, Creme de menthe, etc. In fact, if I eat any Creme de menthe cake at Christmas time I can "feel" when I've eaten my limit of cake/when eating any more will trigger the hives. Yes, I'm naughty and eat my cake too, but I can tell when I've eaten enough/when my body has had it's limit. I also know that that's bad, bad, bad of me! LOL I shouldn't tempt myself that way. Luckily, no one in my family makes creme de menthe cake anymore (I think they've figured out that I have no will power against it...)
I know about food intolerances very well because I have a whole bunch of them--plus I have an allergy to casein (a protein in cow's milk). However, there are also different forms of allergy--my allergy doesn't make my throat swell shut, nor does it require an ER visit.
If you want to know for sure, visit a naturopathic doctor and have him run some food allergy and food intolerance tests. You'll have your answers almost right away.
I'd say an intentinal thing - esp if there is something going around daycare. If her stomach pH is off bc of a bug, then her poop is going to be different too and cause a diaper rash. I'd give it a few weeks and try black beans again. I bet she'll be fine, but just keep an eye on her afterwards for similar symptoms.
This does not sound like a food allergy to me at all.
Allergic reactions to food occur between 5 minutes and up to 2 hours after the ingestion of the food, but most reactions are within 15 minutes. So, for her to be sick the next day, it sounds more like a stomach bug or that there might have been an issue with food safety/contamination.
For more information and signs/symptoms, read this article:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-allergy/DS00082/DSE...
Was it plain black beans or were they seasoned? I would think it would be more likely to be the seasoning but it's possible it was the beans. It's also very, very likely it was an intestinal virus. The rash would be from the diarrhea.
When we figured out DD can't do apples, it was because her face broke out and she got a rash on the other end. No apples, no more rashes. However, throwing up a lot might just mean food poisoning (little kids are so sensitive) or she got a stomach bug from someone. Hard to say.
