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My 8 month old was given rice cereal with breast milk at 6 months, he tolerated great. At 7 months I gave him peaches and oatmeal baby food, he had his first FPIES reaction. 2 weeks ago I bought organic puffs and he failed those as well. Im very confused on what his triggers are since he tolerated the rice cereal, but failed the puffs and oatmeal. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Figuring out food trial fails can be very confusing! I would food test one food at a time. Do you know for sure it was the oatmeal or was it the peaches? Has he had peaches without oatmeal? What was the ingredients of the puffs? Just rice? A couple of things I learned over the last 2 and a half years: 1. Breastfeeding my son for a long time may have saved his life. 2. It can take awhile to develop a food reaction- my son happily ate rice cereal for an entire month before he had a severe...

I bet he didn’t initially react to the rice cereal because of the breast milk... my son has rice and oats fpies and when he was given oatmeal with breast milk he was fine. Once I stopped producing at about 5 months and he had oatmeal he reacted. Before we knew he had fpies we tried again and his reaction to oatmeal was even more severe, ER doc diagnosed fpies from there...