Our peanut experience was a one-time deal. Our daughter was about 14 months old and I was eating a protein bar. She took a peanut from it and put it in her mouth. Not liking the taste, she spit it out and I threw it away. As she didn't react right away I was unconcerned. A few hours later when I went to change her diaper, she was red all over her lower torso. I don't mean diaper rash, I mean her skin, ALL of her skin was bright red. Since she was at the park that day and on the grass I thought that maybe she was having a reaction to the grass (not out of the question as my son used to react to grass when he was younger). I went to put her in the bathtub to wash off any residual pollen and noticed that the redness was creeping up toward her head and a hive was forming on her back. A little freaked out I called out to my husband who quickly took my place while I called the doctor's office. As I raced to the pharmacy to get more Benadryl (ours was of course nowhere to be found), my husband continued to monitor her. Thinking back we were sure that it was not the grass as this was not her first exposure, that is must be the peanut.
We took her to the doctor the next day and based on our experience the doctor thought it wise to prescribe an Epi-Pen. At first we carried it with us when we remembered, but as she was not officially diagnosed and we kept her away from peanuts, we admittedly were pretty casual about it at first.
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