What is the probability of occurrence of food allergy in a child? By allergic reactions in the first place predisposes heredity. Children who are breastfed, the cause of the food allergy may be the products that are used the nursing mother.
An increased risk of food allergiesthere are children in families where cases of allergies have already been fixed. If one parent is allergic, the risk of such a disease in a child is 37%, and if allergic diseases are affected by both parents, the risk level reaches 62%.
Besides genetic factors,allergic reactionsthe newborn can lead fetal hypoxia (Oxygen deficiency) during pregnancy and childbirth transferred toddler acute respiratory viral infections and intestinal followed violation of the intestinal microflora.
The emergence of food allergy in infants is associated with functional features of the digestive tract: There are low activity of enzymes that produce low levels of IgA - protective antibodies located on the surface of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract.
They provide local protection of the intestinal mucous membranes from foreign agents. And as for the newborn is characterized by increased permeability of mucous membranes, the allergens can easily penetrate into the bloodstream.And of course, allergic reactions associated with disturbances in nutrition nursing mother, with excess use it vysokoallergennyh products.
Among the causes of allergies in children: smoking expectant mother while carrying a child, that it has a variety of diseases:chronic cardiovascular and bronchopulmonary, as well as infectious diseases carried over the mother during pregnancy, and carried out in connection with this antibiotic therapy.
It is believed that children whose mothers during pregnancy vysokoallergennye consumed products, which include cow's milk, eggs, caviar, seafood, orange and red fruits and vegetables and juices from them, as well as the kiwi, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, mushrooms, nuts, honey, are at risk of becoming allergic.
Be sure to ask, which products should be excluded during seasonal allergies.