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Pregnancy, anyone had a baby after having your child w/ allergies & eczema?

Mary - posted on 06/22/2010 ( 4 moms have responded )

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I was wondering if anyone has had a baby after having a child with food allergies and eczema. My almost 5 yr old (who is my youngest) is allergic to milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, beef, chicken, lamb, pork, turkey, and maybe oats & tomato plus some enviormentals. He has atopic eczema (which was absolutely horrible as an infant & toddler) and asthma. He's on several medications daily plus prn. He's been hospitalized several times due to the conditions. Every decision we make is based on Isaiah. Most parents are like that, but for us its life or death. Did I also mention that he's the sweetest, funniest lil' boy who can light up a room in a second?

My worry is that any consecutive child my husband and I conceive will also have these medical conditions and suffer the way Isaiah has. Now, our oldest (and 1st) son doesn't have these problems. He has some slight contact eczema (basically dry skin thats never been a problem, ever) and a slight tomato allergy when he was an infant/toddler that he grew out of. He does have some terrible seasonal allergies (as does my husband) that cause frequent nose bleeds (more like gushings), itchy eyes and such during late spring "peak" allergy season. But absolutely nothing like what the youngest goes through. has.

So has anyone had a child after their food allergy/eczema child was born. Did the same medical conditions occur? Were they worse or better (we're afraid it might get worse w/ each child). We love both of our children dearly and have never regretted either one of them. We're just curious to this. I've tried to find info online but only found a promising study about mothers avoiding the child's food allergies during the third trimester and through the 1st 18mths of the child's life (or when the mother stops breastfeeding and then just the baby avoids the allergens until 18mths). Of the children born to the mothers who followed the doctors advice, only 33% developed food allergies compared to 55% of the mothers who didn't follow the advice.

Any thoughts or personal expierences?

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Trish - posted on 04/11/2012

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our almost 5 year ok dhas anaphlaxis.. allergic to cows milk. cats dogs lanolin nickel and various other things... he has epipen ans sedative medication to help him. he;s a carrier os the staph virus so if he has an eczema flareup allergy related and scratches he infects himself so onto anti biotics... we had a baby 17 weeks ago im b/feeding.. noticed a problem with her so went onto a milk free diet turn out shes lactose intollerent complete fluke thoough just coz had one dont mean you'll have another xxx so no i did othing different this time while pregnant callum is just very unfortunate

Megan - posted on 11/25/2010

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Hi Mary, first of all - congratulations! My first has multiple food allergies and moderate eczema and hay fever as well. I have 2 younger sons, neither of which have any food allergies. My 2nd gets the odd bit of eczema and hayfever, but so far my 3rd is showing signs of none of this.

The latest studies here in Australia have shown that withholding foods for kids at risk of food allergy (such as nuts) may actually increase their chance of allergy when they finally do have them. I am not sure if this is the same for avoiding the food during pregnancy, but our allergist said that there was nothing to show that avoiding foods during pregnancy would help.

While pregnant with my 2nd, I took part in a study where I took high doses of pro-biotics during the last 4-6 weeks. The results showed that this did reduce the incidence of food allergies in the children. All mother's in the study already had to have a child with proven food allergy and therefore any other children were at a high risk of developing food allergies. You may want to take pro-biotics yourself as it will not hurt you or the baby and may just help with the allergy situation! I took them with my 3rd also.

Good Luck!

Mary - posted on 11/10/2010

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I'll probably take you up on that support system! Not long after posting this, we found out we're pregnant with our third child. I'm due around Valentine's Day. When I discussed this with my Ob/gyn and the OB nurse, the dr said he didn't know anything to do but the nurse was aware of the study I was talking about. She suggested I cut out the anaphylatic allergies out of my diet in my 3rd trimester. I'm trying not to worry about it too much. I'll love this lil' boy just the same. Atleast this time around I'm more educated then when we started this journey with Isaiah :-)

Melina - posted on 11/10/2010

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Both my kids have the same allergies except to the eggs. They are both Celiac. I'm pregnant again with my 3rd. I have the gene for it and there is nothing that can be done. But if you need a support system and a mother that understands I'm here....
My oldest is 7 and my youngest is 3. my e-mail is melee_8@yahoo.com

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