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We don’t want parents rubbing foods onto the baby’s skin, particularly if they have eczema, as this could increase the chance of them developing an allergy to the food.
Also, some foods, when rubbed on the skin, can cause a bit of a rash and some parents may confuse this for an allergic reaction.
How will you know if your baby is having an allergic reaction to a food and what should you do if they are?
Signs that your baby may be having an allergic reaction usually happen within a few minutes to two hours of eating a food.
Like a lot of new parents, Ali Simmons was worried about the possibility of her baby son Leonard having a food allergy. “It seems like so many children have allergies these days,” Ali tells Mamamia. “We seem to talk about food allergies a lot at my mothers’ group.”In fact, Australia has the world’s highest confirmed rate of food allergy in children. . Continued