Allergy to the mixture

Allergy to the mixture - a fairly common phenomenon in infants who are on artificial feeding. This is due to numerous factors, the main of which is intolerance of the individual components of this product. In children under one year, the most common food allergen is cow's milk protein, and since the vast majority of infant formula is made on the basis of whey or cow's milk, allergy to the mixture develops. For most mothers, salvage from this type of allergy is a specially developed hypoallergenic mixture.

Unfortunately, some mothers, after starting production of hypoallergenic mixtures, stop breastfeeding the baby, transferring it to artificial feeding with these substitutes for mother's milk. However, this should not be done, since breast milk will always be better than any, even the safest hypoallergenic mixture. Allergies to breast milk can develop only if the feeding mother uses banned food( raspberries, strawberries, eggs, cocoa, chocolate, etc.) during this period. Therefore, if during breastfeeding the baby has an allergy, breastfeeding the baby should not be thrown, you should just stick to the hypoallergenic diet.

In order to avoid allergy to the mixture in the baby, it should be selected food in accordance with the current immune status of the baby. In addition, a pediatrician who watches a child must take into account a family history and if at least one of the parents has any kind of allergy, the risk of developing an allergy to a mixture in a child increases many times. For such children, special mixtures based on the non-milk protein are developed, and its hydrolyzate

Allergy to the mixture - how to determine?

In case of a baby skin rash, you should contact the leading baby pediatrician to determine if a rash is allergic. Then, together with the doctor, it is necessary to exclude contact dermatitis( a possible allergic reaction to the cream, diapers, children's laundry detergent), which occurs exclusively at the place where the baby's skin contacts the provoking allergen. After this, the allergy to foods and medicines is ruled out. At the end of all the above manipulations, you can start to think that the infant is on an artificial feeding, most likely it reacts to the proteins of cow's milk.

How is the allergy to the mixture in the child manifested: diarrhea, enteritis, constipation, vomiting, regurgitation, intestinal colic, dyspnea, dermatitis, skin rash

Allergy to the mixture - what to do?

If the baby has allergic reactions to the mixture, there are several options, and which one to give preference depends on the degree of symptomatology:

- If the baby has excess skin mass and regurgitation in addition to skin rashes, this is overfeed and the diurnal and single feeding volumes should be reduced toRecommended for this age doses. In the case when the baby is already used to eating a lot, the mixture should be made less concentrated, i.e. Just dilute. This will significantly reduce the load on the digestive tract, the process of fermentation and decay will decrease in the intestine, the mixture will be digested much better and allergic manifestations will also decrease accordingly.

- If the skin rashes are moderate or very slight, you can simply try changing one mixture to another, and the preference should beGive sour-milk mixtures or mixtures containing probiotics. The use of such mixtures creates all favorable conditions for the reproduction of beneficial lactic acid bacteria in the baby's intestines, so that the mixtures are much easier to digest and cause allergy in isolated cases.

- It is necessary to completely eliminate the provoking allergen from the child's daily diet( in this case it is cow's milk protein).This should be done if the above two options have not helped to cope with allergic manifestations or if the allergy symptoms are very severe

If the child is allergic to the mixture, then exclude the provoking allergen( cow's milk protein) in the following ways:

- Replace the mixture in cow's milk with the mixture on goat's milk. This option is most preferable, since goat's milk proteins are full-fledged animal proteins and in terms of nutritional value are not inferior to cow's milk proteins. In this case, the structure of the proteins of goat milk from cow's proteins are significantly different, which is an alternative option in the case when the child is allergic to cow's milk protein. Throughout the first year of life, adapted mixtures based on goat milk can be used as the main food of the child. However, unfortunately, in some children these mixtures also have an allergy

- Replacement of the mixture based on cow milk with a special soy mixture. Previously, this was a common option( before the appearance of goat-milk mixtures), but at present it is less preferable. However, it is soy mixtures that are used for feeding babies with allergies to both cow and goat's milk, because the structure of plant proteins is significantly different from animals. Unfortunately, soy protein has less nutritional value, is slightly worse digested and digested. In addition, soy mixes in taste characteristics in comparison with milk mixtures also differ far from the best. The probability of allergy development on the soy mix is ​​about 15%

- The third and final option is the final replacement of the mixture based on cow's milk with a therapeutic hypoallergenic mixture. For many children, this option is the most preferred

. The translation of the toddler into another mixture should be carried out gradually in the timeframe from five to fifteen days. This should be done even in the case of a developed allergic reaction, since the baby's body must gradually adapt to the new product, in order to avoid digestion breakdown, stool disorder, or simply refuse to use a new mixture. Rice milk is another way out of the situation. If the mother does not( or has finished) her milk, or the baby is allergic to the milk mixture, both for bovine and soy protein, the only way out is to feed the baby with macrobiotic rice milk and the mixtures made on its basis. As in soy-based mixtures, some vital fats are also missing from rice milk, the deficiency of which must be replenished with the help of special additives introduced into the child's diet.

. Hypoallergenic mixtures of

Despite the fact that these mixtures are called hypoallergenic and widely advertisedIn terms of their absolutely harmless use, and the mother can easily choose them even without the appropriate doctor's appointment - for the treatment of children with allergies to cow protein, these mixtures are not intended!

The basis of hypoallergenic mixtures is a partial protein hydrolyzate, in other words, the mixture contains peptides that can cause the development of various allergic manifestations in children. If the baby is already diagnosed with an allergy to milk, such a mixture is definitely not suitable.

Prophylactic hypoallergenic mixtures are prescribed by the doctor as starting compounds for children in the group at increased risk of developing allergies to cow's milk protein. Also, these mixtures serve as a kind of start in the translation of the baby to the constant artificial feeding.

The following hypoallergenic mixtures are well proven: Human GA, Hypoallergenic NAN, Similac GA, Nutrilon GA, Nutrilac GA, Fisolac GA, Combiotic 2 and Hipp HA.

In case of severe allergy the child is transferred to the elemental mixture Nutrilon Amino acid, which instead of protein in its composition contains a set of amino acids. This mixture can not cause allergies under any circumstances. Element mixture Nutrilon Amino acids is the final step in the selection of a mixture for the allergic child.