Recently brushed Weibo, brushed to a picture of the whole person is not good:
People with dense phobia should enter with caution!!
The picture shows an allergen test performed in a hospital
This is the tragic life of an allergic patient
Just two days ago, CCTV reported that children account for the vast majority of the mainland's huge allergy population.
The process of raising a baby was originally a pass all the way through, and I couldn't open any hanging! Especially when encountering the problem of "baby allergy", a handful of bitter tears.
The most crazy thing is that your caution is exchanged for the incomprehension of the elders:
Children used to eat anything, why can't they eat that now?
Children can not be too squeamish, allergies to eat more than a few times.
Is allergy a disease, or is it a sentimentality as the elders say?
Today, let's find out with the girls, what is the baby's food allergy?
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Baby food allergies
Is it too pampered?
I've heard many people have this theory:
Today's children are too spoiled to be bred, so they are allergic to food allergies.
Every time I hear this statement, I can't help but roll my eyes.
Baby food allergies are really not pretentious.
Because your baby's intestinal barrier function is not perfect, the immune system occasionally deserts and is more likely to develop food allergies than adults.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a survey of infants and young children from October to 24 months in 33 cities on the mainland, and the results show that up to 40.9% of children have experienced or are experiencing allergic diseases. Most allergic diseases in children are caused by food.
The data is staggering.
Some symptoms of food allergies are mild, manifesting only as itchy redness and swelling of the skin;
Others are menacing, causing swelling, asthma, difficulty breathing, and even losing their precious lives if they are not careful.
In 2019, there was a girl in Zhengzhou who fainted on the side of the road with allergies after eating peaches, but fortunately, after the rescue of passers-by, she went to the hospital and recovered a life.
The other story is less lucky.
An 11-year-old girl in California, USA, had a severe allergic reaction to dairy products, and usually the girl's parents strictly checked the food label, but the girl died after brushing her teeth. The reason is that toothpaste contains milk protein.
Really, being careful about your child's food allergies isn't at all pretentious.
Because every parent can't bear a lifetime of regrets brought about by a momentary negligence
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How to avoid food allergies in your baby
Pay attention to these 6 foods
Let's talk about how to minimize the chance of food allergies in your baby.
First of all, it should be known that 90% of the baby's food allergies are caused by the following 6 types of food culprits.
Milk and eggs, in particular, are the biggest culprits of allergies in many children.
But when to start trying such highly allergenic foods for babies has always been a point of entanglement for mothers.
Some mothers feel that since the baby's easy food allergy is a reaction of the immune system, it is better to constantly try this type of food for the baby, and the child may adapt after eating for a long time.
Individuals do not support such a practice, after all, once the dosage is not mastered, it is equivalent to poisoning the baby
So 12 years ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics simply recommended that parents try to avoid these types of highly allergenic foods before their children are 3 years old.
However, after years of practice, this theory has found that it is not useful, and even increases the chance of food allergies in babies.
The Canadian Paediatric Association statement states:
Babies should start adding a variety of complementary foods as soon as possible after half a year of age, including highly allergenic foods. Delaying the addition of foods such as peanut butter, eggs or fish will not only not reduce it, but may increase the risk of allergies in your baby.
So in its latest report released in April, the American Academy of Pediatrics completely overturned the recommendation of 12 years ago and issued the following new guidance:
For high-risk children (those with severe eczema or egg allergies), infant-safe peanut products should be systematically fed at 4 to 6 months of age to prevent allergies. Children with mild to moderate eczema should receive this type of product around 6 months.
And according to the latest research:
If parents strictly follow the strict practice of feeding healthy breastfed babies peanut protein, eggs and other 4 allergenic foods at 3 to 6 months, the prevalence of allergies will be reduced by 67% by the age of 3.
So, based on recent parenting studies, the steps we can take are:
How to reduce the chance of food allergies in my baby?
1. Breastfeed as much as possible until 6 months, and start to introduce complementary foods after 4 months to 6 months, including highly allergenic foods.
2, add complementary foods to add the same, after eating to observe whether the baby has an allergic reaction.
Tips
To determine if your baby is allergic, you can use an avoidance-provocation test:
If the baby has an allergic reaction after ingesting a certain food; after stopping ingesting this food, the allergic reaction disappears; after about two weeks, if the food is ingested again and there is an allergic reaction, then it can basically be judged that the child is a food allergy.
3. For babies with moderate or even severe eczema, try to try highly allergenic complementary foods after 6 months.
So, here's the problem:
What should I do if my baby has food allergies?
The best way to recommend at the moment is still to avoid mouthing.
But that doesn't mean your baby needs to avoid it for life, because food allergies may gradually subside as they age.
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Bao Ma shattered thoughts
Spending so much time writing about the topic of baby food allergies is because I see that people with allergies in life misunderstand it too deeply.
Some babies are born different.
They are prone to sensitivity to things around them, such as rubbing their eyes, rubbing their noses, sneezing, coughing repeatedly, and even wheezing... These characteristics indicate that he may be an allergic baby.
But is it necessarily bad for babies with allergies?
I like a point of view of Professor Xu Pengfei of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital:
Children with allergies have both advantages in personality. They are emotionally intelligent, sentimental, creative and leadership.
However, if you are exposed to allergens for a long time and accumulate infections, it is easy to develop chronic diseases such as sinusitis. If there are more infections, it may also affect IQ.
Babies with allergies are not born to be temperamental.
So, let go of these prejudices and take good care of these different little angels.