Child Food Allergy: Prevention and Diagnosis
Is breastfeeding still a way to prevent?
Indeed, it should be recommended for children at risk, ie children whose immediate family suffers from allergic diseases. Breastfeeding should be indicated and maintained for at least 6 months and introduce the foods that cause allergies, such as egg and fish from the year or year and a half.
What happens when parents are allergic to? Is it inherited?
When both parents have allergies the child has a greater chance of developing allergic diseases than a child whose parents are not.
What foods most commonly cause allergies in little ones?
The incidence of trigger foods varies according to each country’s diet. In our country, during the period of breastfeeding, of course, is milk. The egg remains in frequency when introduced as solids and legumes.In schoolchildren, is fish and nuts, whereas in adolescents, allergy to nuts, fruits, fish and shellfish are the most common.
Sometimes the diagnosis is not easy. How is it done?
It is crucial to a detailed history trying to determine the food source of the symptoms. This is easy when it comes to something that is often taken (often the same patient who tells us), or as with infants and allergy to milk proteins (the only food you eat), but not so when the food is that you take regularly and may even be masked in other foods.
Once detected is confirmed by skin testing and can be corroborated by the determination of antibodies in blood. But the definitive proof for the assertion that food is the cause of the disease is giving it to take, what we call a “controlled provocation” (this test only indicates the specialist taking into account certain circumstances and severity of the clinic is a risky test should be done in a controlled way in health centers).
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