Diet for a child with allergies

Contents:

• Hypoallergenic diet for a child - what is its essence?
• Three product groups
• How can manifest allergies?

If your child suffers from allergies, you have to try and be vigilant, because an innocent child's desire to eat something tasty can lead to serious consequences. Therefore, there is a special hypoallergenic diet, a good way to deal with allergies. Its purpose - to find hidden food intolerances or allergies the child to any meal. Hypoallergenic diet for a child mainly includes products that do not cause allergic reactions.

Parents need strict control over the child's diet to prevent the body baby of forbidden products.

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Hypoallergenic diet for a child - what is its essence?

Conventionally, pediatricians hypoallergenic diet divide into two phases: removal and the introduction of possible allergens. It is necessary to find out which of them the child has allergies or hypersensitivity.

The first phase is to be removed from the child's diet all products that can cause the symptoms of allergy. The duration of the first phase of 3 to 6 weeks, for a child who eats only food allowed.

In the second phase of the diet in the diet of the child's return products previously excluded, but strictly on one and controlled by the body's reaction to the food introduced. Next welcome new dishes for the child is only allowed at least 36 hours if there were no manifestations of allergy. If you have symptoms, you should stop taking this product in the food and again wait for recovery. Thus, the two phases are alternated until until all possible identified allergens to which the child has a higher sensitivity.

Do not forget that those products that are identified allergy, should be excluded from the diet for life, as the allergy will not disappear over time. For example, if increased sensitivity is detected on tomatoes, then the child can not eat them either at an early age or when he grows up.

There is a second embodiment of detecting allergen in children. You need to make a list of three groups of products. The first group - food, which are safe and should not bring harm to the baby. The second group - foods with moderate effect on the baby. A third group - dangerous vysokoallergichnye products which should be completely excluded from the diet. So you turn to child nutrition products in the first group, with caution and in the absence of allergy products in the second group and the third group is completely excluded.

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Three product groups

Foods that should be completely excluded from the diet:

• eggs;
• whole milk, dairy products;
• Citrus;
• pickles;
• canned foods;
• red fruits and vegetables, exotic vegetables, celery, cabbage;
• raisins;
• dates;
• seafood;
• sausages;
• smoked;
• chocolate;
• nuts;
• Some varieties of fish;
• chicken;
• honey and its derivatives;
• cocoa, coffee.

As part of the group sredneallergennuyu power?

The use of these products should be introduced gradually and limit. This group includes meat products: horse meat, pork, lamb, poultry (turkey), rabbit meat. Because fruits and vegetables can be listed bananas, beans, corn, potatoes. From cereals should pay attention to wheat and rye.

Products which are a group of low-allergenic:

• meat is low-fat varieties boiled;
• homemade yogurt, dairy products;
• offal (liver, kidney, tongue);
• cod, sea bass;
• buckwheat, rice, barley, oatmeal;
• courgettes, cucumbers, turnips;
• vegetable oil, sunflower oil and olive oil;
• dried fruits (apples, prunes);
• dull berries and fruit drinks from them;
• tea.

But remember that sometimes there is an allergic reaction to the product in this group, so if you do not celebrate the positive effects of a diet, it is necessary to turn to remove from the diet and these products.

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How can manifest allergies?

1. Atopic dermatitis. If your child suffers from this disease, you should take care not only about the hypoallergenic diet, but also to establish a hypoallergenic life. Vividly disease is manifested in the cold season. The main symptoms - is the emergence in the natural folds of skin on the cheeks and flaky skin rash;
2. Hives. Most often this form of allergy occurs when increased sensitivity to any food in the diet of children. The symptom is that the advent of widespread rashes on the body of a baby on her back, arms and legs in the form of "burns from nettle," all of us are familiar with childhood;
3. Eczema. Its symptoms - is the appearance of various parts of the body (back, neck, arms, legs) bubbles with clear content that can burst and covered with a crust, accompanied by itching.

Very often, hypoallergenic diet for children is used in acute manifestations of the disease and in remission allergists can assign your children conduct allergy tests. To do this, the inside of the forearm and shoulder are sometimes applied to the allergen, and then goes observation. The appearance of the skin swelling, redness and itching indicates hypersensitivity to any product.

What else can you recommend?

Being on such a diet, children can not overeat. It is not necessary to repeat the same foods day after day, it is best to alternate them. If your child is longing for sweets, prefer apples or dried fruit, but do not give your child candy, chocolate. Not always the allergen causes a reaction on its entry into the body immediately, sometimes it accumulates, and only upon reaching a certain concentration manifests itself symptomatically.

If allergic reactions are revealed the baby who is breastfed, then stick to hypoallergenic diet is its nursing mom. If you notice any symptoms you need to contact the experts, who will make an individual program and diet for your baby.