I just started feeding my 5 month old vegetables. I fed him sweet potatoes, and took a taste myself. (i have eaten sweet potatoes many times) well, the next morning I woke up with a swollen eyelid and red blotches on my face. I continued with the second day of feeding my son sweet potatoes (gerber) and that evening I developed red blotches all over my body that stung and itched like bad sunburn. My son developed light hives on his chest and back., may be unrelated, but I discontinued the sweet potatoes anyway. My rash is subsiding except for red itchy palms.

Could all this have been from the gerber food? It is the only new thing I have been exposed to. And why? I never had a reaction to sweet potatoes before. Should I try feeding it to my son again in a month or so, or just steer clear of it?