Avoiding Food Allergies in Baby: Raising a Healthy Baby, Naturallly

In a recent British Medical Journal article, researchers were alarmed at the dramatic increase in the number of people admitted to hospital suffering from allergy related disease. Unfortunately, most of those hospital admissions were children.

Fortunately, there are positive things you can do as a parent to prevent these conditions. Breast feeding of course is one of the best food’s available for your baby and ideal for helping your child’s immune system deal with allergens. If however, you choose not to breastfeed or are unable to nurse this information is still pertinent and can help your child grow strong and healthy.

Your Infant's Digestive System

As a new born your baby does not have the well developed digestive system that you do. His salivary glands do not contain the necessary secretions to initiate starch breakdown and even his little tummy isn’t producing the enzymes needed to convert starch to fuel.

Unfortunately, one of the first foods given babies is pablum or cereal, a starch, that given your infant’s inability to digest carbohydrates, can decompose in their stomachs and cause one or more of the following complaints:

• colic,
• irritability,
• insomnia,
• constipation
• or diarrhea,
• bloating and gas,
• skin rashes or eczemas,
• recurrent upper respiratory infections,
• allergies
• and asthma.

Your child’s digestive system is capable of breaking down the protein found in mother’s milk. In addition, their pancreatic enzymes can process both fat and protein and the carbohydrates babies are best able to digest, milk sugar or lactose.

When solid foods are introduced to infants too early their ill-equipped systems cannot break down the food completely.

This allows undigested proteins to be taken into the blood stream. These proteins, called antigens, can cause an infant’s delicate immune system to respond by creating antibodies, substances that seek out and eliminate antigens.

When that same food is consumed the bodies release of antibodies causes the immune system to produce powerful anti-inflammatory substances such as histamines and leukotrienes which can provoke the host of symptoms mentioned earlier.

Taking Action

Concerned about food allergies developing in your child? Do both parents have allergies, just one parent or neither? Do you want to ensure your baby has the best chance at avoiding allergies an sensitivities?

Raising the Natural Baby by Beth Hendry-Yim is a comprehensive guide to introducing first foods and raising a baby free of allergies.

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