{"id":137,"date":"2021-05-12T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2021-05-28T06:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T06:23:56","slug":"food-allergies-in-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/food-allergies-in-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"Food allergies in infants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ideal food for a baby is, of course, his mother&#8217;s breast milk.&nbsp;Meanwhile, even with breastfeeding, food allergies sometimes develop in infants.&nbsp;The development of food allergies in infants, as a rule, indicates that the mother has eaten a certain product, and&nbsp;the infant has a response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food allergies in infants can develop to citrus fruits, honey and nuts, strawberries and tomatoes, chocolate and sweets, to rich meat and even in some cases chicken.&nbsp;Of course, food allergies in infants can also be found on other food products, which, in principle, are not irritants, but each child&#8217;s body is individual in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the baby&#8217;s nutrition already for some part consists of artificial feeding, or the mother is just going to introduce it into the daily diet, and there is a suspicion that food allergies may develop&nbsp;in the baby, since when breastfeeding&nbsp;he often has reddening of the skin cheeks, it is worth consulting an allergist before introducing complementary foods.&nbsp;A qualified specialist will resolve the issue of the presence of food allergies in babies, which could be inherited, if any.&nbsp;In addition, the child will&nbsp;undergo allergy&nbsp;tests, which will show which foods the body responds to with an allergic reaction.&nbsp;In most cases, food allergies in infants are caused by the presence of cow&#8217;s milk protein in the diet, which is present in all milk cereals for children.&nbsp;Other babies have allergic reactions to&nbsp;casein&nbsp;, which is found in mother&#8217;s breast milk substitutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the&nbsp;development of food allergies in infants to cow&#8217;s milk, it is necessary to exclude milk porridge from the child&#8217;s diet.&nbsp;It is not worth worrying about the deficiency of nutrients in the child&#8217;s body, since the prohibition of milk cereals is not forever, but only until the baby survives an allergy to its protein.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If a child is on a diet with an artificial breast milk substitute,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>if he or she detects an allergic reaction to&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>casein&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>, doctors advise replacing it with a&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>hydrolyzate&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Such food, of course,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>will cost the parents&nbsp;<\/strong>more than the usual artificial feeding, but it is considered curative, and for any mother, nothing is more expensive than the health of the baby.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find a food allergy in a baby, you should not start using hormone-based ointments.&nbsp;Such drugs are usually prescribed only as a last resort, for example, when diagnosing&nbsp;atopic&nbsp;dermatitis.&nbsp;It may be that at&nbsp;the pediatrician&#8217;s appointment, the baby has only minor rashes on the skin, and the doctor will diagnose&nbsp;atopic&nbsp;dermatitis.&nbsp;In such a situation, it is necessary to seek confirmation from a dermatologist-allergist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If for a long time a&nbsp;food allergy in a baby is found to a certain product, then this product must be excluded from the diet for at least a few months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mother needs to be extremely careful and attentive in the process of assembling her child&#8217;s diet.&nbsp;New products are introduced literally one gram at a time, in the process of which the&nbsp;child&#8217;s condition&nbsp;is constantly monitored&nbsp;.&nbsp;At the same time, you should not limit the children&#8217;s menu to only those products that are not considered allergens.&nbsp;You can give your child baby puree containing, for example, plums or cherries &#8211; these berries rarely cause allergies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When preparing baby food on your own, vegetables should be soaked before boiling.&nbsp;When feeding a baby with meat broth, it is better to give secondary broth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ideal food for a baby is, of course, his mother&#8217;s breast milk.&nbsp;Meanwhile, even with breastfeeding, food allergies sometimes develop in infants.&nbsp;The development of food allergies in infants, as a rule, indicates that the mother has eaten a certain product, and&nbsp;the infant has a response.&nbsp; Food allergies in infants can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-allergy-meds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}