Preventing allergies in children

[Julius Seizure]

New(ish) guidelines now say that you don't have to wait until after 1 year to feed your baby egg whites and other "high allergenic" foods. In fact, delaying them may make allergies more likely. I've been noticing that this info hasn't caught everywhere yet, so I thought I would post it.

Preventing Allergies: What you should know about your baby's nutrition (AAAAI)

Source from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology

Peanut Allergies

AAP source (if you have a subscription, otherwise only the first page is available)

[sergel02, BSN]

The topic kind of makes me think of how some research says more kids supposedly have allergies these days because they aren't xposed as much.

[KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN]

Also, well-known fact that kids brought up on farms among animals, plans and some dust and dirt as well are less prone to allergies than those who never touched anything that was was not carefully desinfected beforehand.

Besides, "highly allergenic foods" are different for different ethnic (and therefore genetic) groups. For people of my ancestry, peanuts and egg white (egg albumin, being exact) are not as much a problem as seafood, for one example.

Unfortunately, Academy of Pediatrics (as many other national health providers' organizations) tends to throw out a baby together with the water from time to time. A few years ago they tried to push rather hard about universal lipid scheening with following "considerations" (read: script) for long-term statins for kids as young as 8. That seemingly did not go through too well; now, they, again basing on limited number of known facts, "recommend" limited diet, which could lead to higher expenses (as "clean" and "organic" baby food is quite costly) and potentially problems with food acceptance in the name of "battling" the problem causes of which are still largely unknown.

I do not think that to take 1 year old in a Asian/Mex fusion restaurant sounds like a wonderful idea, but to strictly limit exposure to things which are so common till the magic date of 365 days since birth doesn't look like something sound either.

[Julius Seizure]

I do not think that to take 1 year old in a Asian/Mex fusion restaurant sounds like a wonderful idea, but to strictly limit exposure to things which are so common till the magic date of 365 days since birth doesn't look like something sound either.

Just think how cultured their taste in food would be by age 2!!