Peanut Meal

Good question! - It seems to me if we are to believe we can sensitize our own young by eating peanut products while breastfeeding than it would also be possible for peanut protein to pass into cow's milk.

I haven't had a traceable reaction to milk, but I have had reactions (mild but obvious) from chicken and beef prepared from scratch by myself, that were fed soy meal.

There doesn't seem to be any one brand or line that is either particularly problematic OR safe, so, short of raising ALL of my own food, I live with the risk.

I suggest, though, that everyone skip those peanut fed Virginia hams that are marketed every Christmas.

Thanks for the input -- I never knew about the peanut fed Virginia Hams; and never imagined that peanut could show up in meat and cow's milk!

Hi all,

Geesh! We not only have to worry about what our children eat, and the fact that manufacturers make careless mistakes with labeling and cross-contamination. But, now we also have to worry about what the cows are eating to insure our milk is peanut-free also? What next? My goodness! I'm growing new gray hairs every day!!!

Linda-Jo

I often wondered if there was a connection - when my child eats the occasional breakfast sausage link, she sometimes gets a small hive on her face - everything else is homemade so I know its not the pancakes, etc or cross contamination. She has been tested and is only allergic to peanuts -

I guess there may be a connection...
Since it is a commodity - I'll bet pig farmers feed the hogs peanuts too.

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