Should I be giving Allergens to baby? Confused on BLW

Question

I’ve heard that you should give baby allergens that it’s important in the beginning and that you should give 3 or more foods at once with BLW? 
But my doctor told me ONE food at a time ONCE a week to rule out possible allergies? 
I’m confused now...
What is the reason for giving more than one food at a time? What if baby is allergic to one and I don’t know which one because I gave more than one? What is the reason why allergens foods are crucial?

Answer

I would go off what the doctor says. One food at a time seems safer so that you know right away if there’s an issue.

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As someone with a child with multiple allergies, all I can say is introduce one at a time and give plenty of time in between.  It becomes hell to figure out what’s what later on.
We have multiple food allergies in our family though including soy, wheat, and peanuts so I will be holding off at the advice from my daughter’s allergist.

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My daughters child nurse said "one food at a time for a few days" is outdated so I didn't do that. I just gave her different foods together. I did however give popular allergin foods like peanut butter, eggs, fish and strawberries to her seperately and tried them on her at different times.

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When we did BLW we started by giving our son one thing from our plates at a time in the first few weeks, but after that we got more adventurous and we were only cautious with high risk foods, like shellfish, eggs, nuts, etc. My husband and I don’t have any allergies and no one in our immediate families do either, so we weren’t as worried as most. I will say that peanut butter was one of the first things we gave our son because we wanted to make sure he wasn’t allergic. I also gave him eggs pretty early on because we have chickens and we eat eggs every morning so my guy was very curious. Whenever we gave food like that I always made sure my husband was home for the first time in case of an emergency.

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One at a time for one week is what I have always been told and what I did. I have bad food allergies (any type of nut, eggs, and dairy) so we are super careful.

Should I be giving Allergens to baby? Confused on BLW

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