Hypoallergenic diet - a way to combat allergies

If your child is allergic, you willtry and be vigilant, after all quite innocent desire of the child 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 is to detect intolerance or latent food allergy in a child for any food. Hypoallergenic diet for the child basically includes products that do not cause allergic reactions. Parents require strict control over the nutrition of the child, in order to prevent the ingestion of prohibited foods into the body.

Hypoallergenic diet for the child - what is its essence?

Conditionally pediatricians divide the hypoallergenic diet bytwo phases: elimination and introduction of possible allergens. This is necessary in order to find out which of them the child has allergies or hypersensitivity. In the first phase, all foods that can cause allergy symptoms should be removed from the baby's diet. The duration of the first phase is from 3 to 6 weeks, for which the baby is fed only by authorized food. In the second phase of the diet, products previously excluded, but strictly one at a time and under the control of the body's reaction to the introduced food, are returned to the diet of the child. The next reception of a new dish for a child is allowed only at least 36 hours, if there are no manifestations of allergy. If symptoms of the disease appear, you should stop taking this product for food and again wait for recovery. Thus, the two phases alternate until all possible allergens are identified, to which the child has increased sensitivity. Do not forget that those products for which an allergy is detected, should be excluded from nutrition for life, since the allergy will not disappear anywhere in the course of time. For example, if there is an increased sensitivity to tomatoes, then their child can not be eaten at an early age, or when he is already growing up. There is also a second option for detecting allergens in children. You need to compile a list of three product groups. The first group is products that are safe and should not harm the baby. The second group is products with an average degree of effect on the baby. And the third group - dangerous, highly allergenic products, which need to be completely excluded from nutrition. Thus, you include foods from the first group in the baby's food, with caution and in the absence of allergy manifestations products from the second group and completely exclude the third group.

Three product groups

Products that need to be completely excluded from the diet:

eggs;
whole milk, dairy products;
citrus;
marinades;
canned food;
red fruits and vegetables, exotic vegetables, celery, cabbage;
raisins;
dates;
seafood;
sausages;
smoked products;
chocolate;
nuts;
some varieties of fish;
chicken;
honey and its derivatives;
cocoa, coffee.

What is included in the middleallergic food group? The use of these products should be limited and introduced gradually. This group includes meat products: horse meat, pork, lamb, meat of birds (turkey), rabbit meat. From vegetables and fruits, you can list bananas, legumes, corn, potatoes. From cereals, you should pay attention to wheat and rye. Products that belong to the group of low allergenic:

low-fat meat in boiled form;
homemade yogurt, sour-milk products;
by-products (liver, kidney, tongue);
cod, sea bass;
buckwheat, rice, pearl barley, oatmeal;
zucchini, cucumbers, turnips;
vegetable oils, sunflower and olive oil;
dried fruits (apples, prunes);
soft berries and compotes of them;
tea.

But remember that sometimes there is an allergicreaction and on products from this group, therefore if you do not note a positive effect from a diet it is necessary to take out from a food and these products alternately.

How can an allergy manifest itself?

Atopic dermatitis. If your child suffers from such a disease, you should take care not only of observing a hypoallergenic diet, but also of creating a hypoallergenic lifestyle. Especially the disease manifests itself in the cold season. The main symptoms are the appearance in the natural folds of the skin, on the cheeks of skin rashes and flaking;

Hives. Most often, it is this form of allergy that occurs when you are sensitive to a particular food in your baby's diet. It is manifested by the appearance of a common rash on the baby's body, on the back, handles, legs, in the form of "burns from the nettle", all of us familiar from childhood;

Eczema. Its symptoms are the appearance on the various parts of the body (back, neck, arms, legs) of bubbles with transparent contents that can burst and crust, accompanied by itching.

Very often hypoallergenic diet for childrenis used in the acute period of the manifestation of the disease, and during the remission allergists can prescribe to your children the conduct of allergic tests. To do this, the allergen is applied to the inner side of the forearm and sometimes the shoulder, and then there is observation. The appearance of skin edema, redness and itching indicates an increased sensitivity to any product. What else can I recommend? Being on such a diet, children can not overeat. Do not repeat the same products every day, it is better to alternate them. If your baby yearns for sweets, give preference to dried fruits or apples, but do not give the child caramel, chocolate. Not always the allergen causes a reaction to its entry into the body instantly, sometimes it accumulates and only when it reaches a certain concentration shows itself symptomatically. If the allergic reactions are detected in a baby who is breastfed, then adhering to a hypoallergenic diet is worth his feeding mummy. If you have any symptoms, you need to turn to specialists who will make up an individual program and a diet for your baby.