Allergies do not spare anyone - neither physically frail, sickly children, no strong and vigorous zdorovyachkov. However, not always a reaction to the food appears in a familiar way
Abdominal pain, indigestion, itchy rash on the skin - these manifestations of allergy, but other options are possible. For example, no diarrhea, and constipation, not rash, a runny nose, no pain around the navel, and bronchospasm and angioedema, when the child swollen lips, tongue, face.
The threat on a plate
Adverse reactions to food are developed, usually in the first year of life, becoming the foundation on which later, ie in Early and pre-school age, are formed of a serious allergic diseases: atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma.
To prevent their development, with the slightest suspicion of food allergy in a child exclude from its diet products of the first two columns of the table - with high and moderate allergenicity. And for the children's food base, take the ones listed in the third column: that they are significantly less likely than other foods to cause food allergies.
Rating of the most dangerous food allergens / istockphoto.com
Measure around
If you have a family or in the family have allergies, take preventive measures to minimize the risk of food allergy in the baby.
- Continue breastfeeding as long as possible, and if you can not - use hypoallergenic infant formula.
- Reduce the number of potential allergens in the child's diet, make sure that the bed and baby clothes were made of non-allergenic materials.
- More frequent wet cleaning, do not smoke in the room where the crumb, use only household chemicals and powders for washing things.
- Limit contact with baby animals and regularly carry out in an apartment or house antifungal treatment, paying special attention to the children's room.
Rating of the most dangerous food allergens / istockphoto.com
Allergy Test
Children from 3 years of age for diagnostic purposes we recommend that the skin prick tests to allergens. This is a quick and informative method for diagnosis of allergy, which allows you to determine the presence of sensitization (sensitization) of the organism to various allergens. Carrying prick test makes it possible to develop an individual meal plan and an elimination measures for a particular child.
One of the effective methods of treatment of allergic diseases is holding allergen immunotherapy (Asit). Its essence lies in the introduction into the body of the allergen in increasing doses. This allows you to change the hypersensitivity to the "guilty" of a protein and prevent the development of sensitization to other allergens.
Rating of the most dangerous food allergens / istockphoto.com
Allergens in order of risk reduction
1. Milk - cow's milk, milk shakes, cream, fermented baked milk, yogurt, cmetana, sweet cheese with icing, processed cheese, with a mold (Roquefort) and hot spices, yoghurt with sugar and other additives, ice cream. Allergies should be replaced by the goat, buffalo and other types of milk, hard cheese, such as Parmesan, yogurt with natural fruit, fruit yogurt.
2. eggs - egg protein, even in the form of meringue. Allergies should be replaced with quail eggs.
3. Meat - Chicken (same allergens that in egg white), veal and beef in the presence of allergy to milk (the same allergens), duck, goose, pork, lamb, sausage, hot dogs and sausages (including those due to be added in their mustard), meat broths. Allergies should be replaced by a rabbit, turkey, game. And no sausages!
4. A fish - red and black caviar, fatty varieties of white and red fish, canned fish, crabs, oysters, mussels, crabs and other seafood, sushi. Allergies should not eat only steamed sea fish. No river and offal.
5.Fruit - with seeds - cherry, red and yellow cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate, citrus, tropical - pineapple, kiwi, pineapple guava, mango, papaya, figs and other red apples and pear, persimmon, melon, canned juices and fruit drinks, dried fruits - raisins, dried apricots, dates, figs. Allergies should leave only baked apples, dried fruit, pitted.
6. berries - strawberries, strawberry, red and yellow raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, honeysuckle, buckthorn, grapes. Allergies should be replaced by white cherries, plums, prunes, raspberries, white, white currants, white mulberry.
7. Vegetables - pumpkin, turnips, tomatoes, pickles, tomato paste, radish, sunflower seeds, eggplant, beets, carrots, red and green peppers, sorrel, celery, onion, horseradish, ginger, garlic. Allergies should be replaced by potatoes, cabbage, parsley, dill, lettuce, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, spinach.
8. flour - chocolate cakes with cream, sweet bread, cakes, honey, halva. Allergies can only nesdobnoe bran cereal (wheat and black unsweetened), drying, simple crackers, biscuits, crackers, marshmallows, candy.
9. Kashi - semolina, wheat. Allergies can be buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, barley.
10. other allergens - Chewing gum, peanuts and other nuts, brew and any sweet drinks, coffee and cocoa, vinegar, mayonnaise, pepper, cinnamon, mushrooms and spices. Allergies can cause even herbal teas. Allergic shown infusions (e.g., chamomile or herbal children).
All together on the diet
Some children with food allergies need to be low power processing, the other - in a fundamental change in the diet, if the growing idiosyncrasy of certain products.
- In the first stage of diet therapy, in acute allergies, the menu exclude especially eggs, chicken, honey, citrus and chocolate. As well as all types of broths, spicy, salty, pickled foods, canned goods, meats, spices, meat products. Do not give in this time, sweets, sodas, syrups, ice cream, chewing gum.
- Limit meals of semolina, flour, bread, biscuits, pastry and pasta, whole milk, cheese, sour cream, butter. Sugar also be reduced to half the age norm, salt - up to 3-4 g per day.
- This "self-control" children to transfer easier if all family members observe the principles of healthy eating.
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