baby allergy tracker
Track first allergen exposures without guessing later.
Log what your baby tried, when it happened, what you noticed, and what you want to ask your pediatrician. Use the free app for saved records, or print a fridge-ready allergy log.
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Printable baby allergy tracker
Maya's Allergy Tracker
Use each box for date, food form, amount, symptoms, timing, and action taken.
Wheat, rye, barley, oats, couscous, pasta, toast, and similar grain foods.
Examples include shrimp, crab, prawns, and lobster in baby-safe textures.
Well-cooked egg served in a texture your baby can handle.
Examples include salmon, cod, tuna, sardine, and other age-appropriate fish.
Thin peanut butter or peanut powder mixed into puree, yogurt, or cereal.
Tofu, edamame puree, tempeh, or other soft soy foods.
Yogurt, cheese, kefir, ricotta, and other age-appropriate dairy forms.
Almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, pecan, Brazil nut, pistachio, macadamia, or smooth prepared nut forms. No whole nuts.
Celery and celery-based ingredients where relevant to the meal.
Mustard and mustard-containing foods in age-appropriate amounts and textures.
Tahini, hummus, or sesame-containing foods in safe textures.
Sulphites used as preservatives in some packaged foods, often more relevant to labels than whole first foods.
Lupin flour or lupin-containing foods, mostly relevant to packaged foods in some markets.
Examples include mussels, oysters, scallops, squid, and snails in safe textures.
what to record
A useful allergy log is boring on purpose.
The job of a baby allergy tracker is not to make medical decisions. It is to preserve the details parents forget under stress: the food, how it was served, roughly how much was eaten, the time, what symptoms appeared, how long they lasted, and what happened next.
That record becomes useful when you are trying to explain a pattern to a pediatrician. “Peanut caused a rash” is vague. “Thin peanut butter in oatmeal at 8:20 AM, two bites, small hives around mouth at 8:45 AM, no breathing symptoms, called nurse line” is far better data.
BabyFoodTracker gives you two paths. Print the allergy log when you want something visible on the fridge. Use the app when you want each food saved with tried, liked, retry, reaction, allergen tags, and notes in one local-first tracker.
quick system
How to use the baby allergy tracker.
Log the exposure
Write the allergen, food form, texture, amount, and time. “Egg muffin, three bites, 9:10 AM” beats a vague memory.
Watch and record
Note what you see and when: rash, vomiting, cough, swelling, no symptoms, or anything that feels unusual. Keep the language plain.
Share clean notes
Bring patterns to your pediatrician or allergist. The tracker is evidence for a conversation, not a diagnosis machine.
symptom notes
Write down the timing, not just the symptom.
A useful reaction note includes when the symptom started, what it looked like, whether it changed, and what action was taken. If symptoms seem urgent, stop tracking and seek care first.
use the app
Paper is the backup. The app is the memory.
In the BabyFoodTracker app, allergen foods are marked before you log them. You can add reaction notes, keep retry foods visible, and build a cleaner history than scattered photos, texts, and half-filled paper charts.
Use Free Appallergen list
The printable covers all common allergen categories.
The exact foods you offer should fit your baby, family meals, labels, culture, and pediatric guidance. This list is a tracking structure, not a serving plan.
Gluten
Wheat, rye, barley, oats, couscous, pasta, toast, and similar grain foods.
Crustaceans
Examples include shrimp, crab, prawns, and lobster in baby-safe textures.
Eggs
Well-cooked egg served in a texture your baby can handle.
Fish
Examples include salmon, cod, tuna, sardine, and other age-appropriate fish.
Peanuts
Thin peanut butter or peanut powder mixed into puree, yogurt, or cereal.
Soybeans
Tofu, edamame puree, tempeh, or other soft soy foods.
Milk
Yogurt, cheese, kefir, ricotta, and other age-appropriate dairy forms.
Nuts
Almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, pecan, Brazil nut, pistachio, macadamia, or smooth prepared nut forms. No whole nuts.
Celery
Celery and celery-based ingredients where relevant to the meal.
Mustard
Mustard and mustard-containing foods in age-appropriate amounts and textures.
Sesame seeds
Tahini, hummus, or sesame-containing foods in safe textures.
Sulphites
Sulphites used as preservatives in some packaged foods, often more relevant to labels than whole first foods.
Lupin
Lupin flour or lupin-containing foods, mostly relevant to packaged foods in some markets.
Molluscs
Examples include mussels, oysters, scallops, squid, and snails in safe textures.
FAQ
Questions parents actually ask.
What should I write in a baby allergy tracker?
Record the food, form, amount, date, time eaten, symptoms, symptom timing, and what you did next. If you contact a pediatrician or allergist, write down the advice you were given.
Does this tracker diagnose food allergies?
No. BabyFoodTracker is a record-keeping tool. Diagnosis, testing, treatment, and emergency plans belong with qualified clinicians.
Which foods should I track first?
Start with the common allergens your pediatrician and food labels call out, then add foods your family actually eats. The printable log and app both support a 14-category common allergen list.
How many times should I record an allergen?
Many parents like first, second, and third exposure notes because one clean record is often not enough context. Follow your pediatrician’s advice for high-risk babies or previous reactions.
What if my baby has trouble breathing or swelling?
Seek urgent medical care. Trouble breathing, face/lip/tongue swelling, repeated vomiting, widespread hives, unusual lethargy, or anything that feels like an emergency should be handled immediately.
Is the app private?
Yes. BabyFoodTracker is local-first: your tracker data is saved in your browser on your device, with no account required.
Medical boundary
BabyFoodTracker helps you keep a food and symptom history. It does not diagnose allergies, prevent reactions, decide treatment, or replace pediatric medical advice. If symptoms feel urgent, handle the emergency first.
related paths
Allergy tracking owns the saved record. Printables support it.
next step
Start with the free app, print when paper helps.
Keep first foods, allergens, reactions, retries, notes, and the 100 foods before 1 goal together in one browser-saved tracker.