manufactured on shared equipment

[Anonymous]

can your child react to something that is totally fine with allergen/intolerances, but is maufactured on shared equipment with something that isn’t like soy or something…it would seem to me there would have to be some type of cleaning process in between the two different food batches. The reason I ask, I have found this amazing sunnut butter that I love, but I noticed that it was manufactured on shared equipment with soybeans so I stopped using it. Am I being too paranoid? There hasn’t been blood in McKenzies stool for a long time and the occult blood test was negative even while on the prevacid solutabs (dairy is one of the culprets)

[Anonymous]

this is one thing we take a chance with when we read labels for our celiac girls. i think that the equipment is cleaned down before another product is processed—and sometimes it just means it is made in the same facility. we used to avoid “made in the same facility, or shared equipment foods” but we go ahead and try them now. we do blood tests every 6 months on our girls, so we can keep an eye on whether or not they are getting gluten in their diet. i realize that you can’t test for soy allergy, but if your child doesn’t seem to be reacting, it is probably alright.

[Anonymous]

That’s what we do as well. Since Kaelyn’s allergy isn’t anaphylactic, I decided to go ahead and hope for the best with the shared equipment. It’s already hard enough to find “safe” foods for her!

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