Baby Allergic To Rice Cereal?

Baby Allergic To Rice Cereal?

by Kim Nice
(Illinois)

We decided to use Thanksgiving to start our 4 1/2 month old on cereal.. She loved it (or the game of it) and then became fussy (nap time), so I took her upstairs to change her and breast feed her and put her down (our routine).

When I unzipped her sleeper, waiting for me was a nice rash all over her torso... Next day the rash was still there and the Doctor said no cereal till 6 mos... and maybe never!!!

I am a little frustrated because Barrett is a healthy eater and solids would help me not feel like a milk cow.. The Doctor said we could let the hives go away and try one more time (I also ate pumpkin night before this) to make sure rice is the culprit... I have been scanning the web for rice cereal reactions and nothing!

I guess more to be told after 2nd try....

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Nov 18, 2009

No rush but not happy
by: Anonymous

We tryed to start our baby on Rice Ceral at 4 months. We gave it to her for about 4 days and 2 hours after she would just get so upset we could not settle down. So we stopped and everything went back to normal, I thought maybe she just wasn't ready yet. So now she is 6 months and I tryed it again, yesterday and She was upset again. But i just thought it was because she wasn't sleeping. But We gave it to her today and same thing. She isn't breaking out in a rash but she is VERY upset 2 hours after eatting it. So i think we are just going to Jump right into veggies and fruits.. I hope it works...

Mar 25, 2009

Rice Cereal Reaction and Avocado Reaction
by: Anonymous

I wanted to provide an update on my posting in January. I did wait until 5 months before trying any other solids again. I started with baby Oatmeal this time and only once a day for about a week and my son didn't have any reaction this time. I introduced a few other fruits and vegetables first and then tried rice cereal again around six months and did not get a reaction again. I did want to add that I tried Avocado the other day now that my son is almost seven months old and it didn't go well at all. He actually threw it all back up within the first minute of eating it. I will be waiting on Avocado again for quite a bit as it definitely didn't agree with him for some reason. Hope this helps.

Mar 25, 2009

ME TOO
by: Clara

i am a first time mom and just introduced rice cereal two days ago (she just turned 4 months old)and noticed the same kind of rash!!! I will definetly be waiting for it to go away and trying the cereal again to see if this is the reason for her rash...thanks for writing about this though i thought i was alone...lol. If it is the reason for the rash i dont mind waiting another month trying again, and if it happens again, wait another month then see....and of course see what her dr says.

Jan 14, 2009

Introducing Rice Cereal
by: Leisha

I read you comments and have had a similar reaction with my 4 month old son. We introduced rice cereal and he too developed a rash on his torso, but it was on the second day we fed it to him that he developed it I believe. I stopped feeding him the cereal after I realized what was likely causing this. I too thought maybe it was heat rash at first from being too bundled at night. It seems to be going away now very slowly after not having it for four days. My doctor said to wait until it goes away and try to rechallenge with the cereal, but I may wait another month or so before trying anything. He's still small enough that we can certainly wait to introduce any more solids.

Dec 18, 2008

Rice cereal allergy
by: Shirley

My baby will be 6 months on the 28 of December. He is indeed allergic to rice cereal. The first thing I gave him was rice cereal and did not think of any allergic reactions. That evening, his cheeks were covered in a horrible rash. It was raised and painful looking. I blamed it on the fleece blanket he was holding, so I kept giving him thee cereal and the rash got worse and took forever to go away. I still did not think he was allergic. I introduced peaches and indeed he is allergic to those, same reaction as the rice cereal. Still not knowing about the rice, after his face cleared from the peaches, I gave him the cereal and he had the same reaction. Like I said he is almost 6 months, so the other day I bought those graduate puffs that dissolve in their mouths and the first ingredient is rice flour, so I just gave it a try and what do you know, he is allergic to those as well. He got the rash and his eyes got red and swollen and very watery. So for now he has bananas and sweet potatoes, but is showing interest in our food, so I know he wants to try other baby foods, but seems to be allergic to everything.

Dec 10, 2008

Reacting to Rice Cerael
by: Kelly

Hi, I am a first time mother and I first fed my son Domanic at about 4 months of age. I started with the rice cerael that comes as free samples in the mail from Nestle. Domanic had the same reaction as your little one. It was painful for him. The rash went aways after a couple of days. I waited a couple of weeks and tried again. I reread the instructions on the package for preparing the cerael. It said to add water, I added the cerael to Domanics bottle at bedtime first. I now mix it with water and it seems to be fine with him now. He has had problems in the past with Enfamil, a type of formula, it was too rich for him. He was allergic to it. I am very careful now to make sure I mix everything by the instructions and to not over add anything to make it too strong and he seems to be fine. Your baby might be having the same reactions Domanic has. Maybe your little one is sensitive. With you breastfeeding you are giving your baby the best choice so theres no telling if the cerael might be too strong like it was for Domanic at first. I would just try again and see if there is any reaction. When I tried again I started with only feeding a couple of spoons once a day and then so on if no rash occurred.
Good luck!
Kelly

Nov 29, 2008

Sorry to hear this
by: Christine (editor)

Kim, I'm so sorry that you got off to such a bad start with introducing solids to your little one! Thank you so much for sharing your experience - although reactions to infant rice cereal are unusual, this does show that they CAN happen (unless, of course, it transpires that your baby was reacting to the pumpkin you had eaten rather than the cereal itself).

Please do let us know what happens if you do decide to try rice cereal a second time.

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