Allergies in newborns

Allergy in newborns is the most common disease from the first days of a baby's life. The allergic reaction in newborns is more severe than in adults. It is a mistake to assume that the baby is breastfed by the breastfeeding mother, is immune from allergies. Just breast milk and contains these ill-fated allergens

Causes of allergy in newborns

What causes allergies in newborns? Of course, foods that contain allergens and are consumed by the mother, or foods that are directly consumed by the baby. Increases the likelihood of allergies in neonates, the hereditary factor, as well as severe labor, fetal hypoxia and severe acute respiratory viral or intestinal infections transferred in severe form. You can not exclude the low functional feature of the digestive tract of the baby. Antibodies are not yet ready to cope and provide protection for the intestinal mucosa.

Smoking during pregnancy also aggravates the situation towards the appearance of an allergic reaction in the baby. The next cause of allergies in newborns is the infatuation of the mother with high-calorie allergenic foods during pregnancy. In the future, the child will overreact to such products: caviar fish, cow's milk, seafood, eggs, red and orange fruits and vegetables, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, nuts, mushrooms, honey. Substances that trigger allergic reactions are called allergens. What else causes allergy in newborns? Food allergies are provoked by proteins found in foods. Some food allergens have the ability to change allergic properties to a lesser extent under culinary processing, while others can gain an allergenicity even higher than the original one.

Often the allergy on the face of a newborn appears some time after taking with the food of an allergic product, but there is also a slow reaction, which manifests itself on the second day. Everything is very individual in each case and depends on the most accepted allergen

Allergy in newborns symptoms

How does allergy develop in newborns? Its manifestations are different. This can be an allergic skin lesions:

• redness, hives, rash

body • peeling and itching on the body, the skin

cheeks • persistent diaper rash, profuse sweating sickness

• formation of scales( gneiss) in the head and eyebrows, angioneurotic

edema orlesions of the gastrointestinal tract mucosal edema:

• regurgitation, vomiting

• loose stools with a characteristic green admixture

• constipation, colic, flatulence

Enough rare manifestation of allergy in infants occurs as respiratory disorders accompanied byMucosal edema: allergic rhinitis, bronchospasm

Bronchospasm and Quincke's edema present a danger to the newborn with its unfavorable outcomes.

There are combinations of lesions of the skin, intestines and bronchi. In such cases, develop:

• atopic dermatitis

• asthma

allergy in infants treated

If you have allergy symptoms in the newborn need to notify the pediatrician and get the necessary treatment recommendations. In severe cases, the fence of venous blood will be taken and the presence of immunoglobulins is determined. E. A diary is effective for detecting an allergen, in which the mother records the consumed foods. The first thing that begins treatment is the diet and the exclusion of allergic products. The tactics of treatment with a diet is chosen by an allergist.

But before the arrival of a doctor you must be able to provide first aid to your baby. For example, with bronchospasm, give the child for up to one year an antihistamine in the form of a syrup containing claritin or suprastin.

If the newborn is breastfed, the mother should sit on a strict diet with the exception of potential allergens. Nursing mother urgently excludes from her menu: fish, eggs, chicken eggs, nuts, honey, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, seafood, red and orange vegetables, fruits;soups, pickles, spicy food, spices, garlic, onion, radish, pineapple, kiwi, grapes, mayonnaise, chips, sausages, ham, sauces, ketchups, adjika, sodas, beer, brew.

Cautiously in small quantities applies whole milk, sour cream, sugar, salt, bakery products of the highest grade.

Unrestricted fermented milk products are allowed: kefir, cottage cheese, bifid, biokefir, yogurt without additives, hard cheese varieties, acidophilus;Cereals: rice, oats, buckwheat, corn;Soups: vegetarian, and also groats;Meat: young beef, pork, turkey fillet, boiled chicken;Lean fish: cod, pike perch, hake;Vegetable oil and bakery products of the 2nd grade;Drinks: mineral water still, weak tea, compote, fruit drink.

For artificial, as well as mixed feeding of a baby food allergen is a cow protein from a child's mixture. In this case, it is necessary to replace the hypoallergenic soy or hydrolyzed mixture prescribed by the doctor. But even with such a diet, there are troubles: it is possible to tolerate a soy diet and repulsive unpleasant taste of the hydrolyzed mixture for the baby.

This diet is recommended for three months and only after that the maternity diet is gradually expanded, excluding, of course, highly allergenic foods.

In the treatment, the doctor prescribes antihistamines, various creams, adsorbents, ointments for topical application to the baby's skin.

Elidel cream is used in case of skin itching and inflammation removal from the age of three months of the child.

Cream Bubchen( Bubchen) - special and protective with panthenol. This cream is indispensable in the diaper area and is especially recommended by Bübchen cream under the baby diaper from the very birth.

Cream Bubchen from allergies in newborns received good reviews from moms, concerned about the baby's inflamed skin. After the beginning of treatment, the allergy in newborns goes away in a short time. Bubchen cream removes diaper rash, redness, minor abrasions and bruises, enriching the skin with nutrients. Cream Bubchen for infants is recommended dermatolagami. The composition of this cream: vitamin E, chamomile, panthenol, fish oil, allantoin. In application it is very simple: it is necessary to apply to the clean skin of a baby up to four times a day. Treatment lasts up to ten days.

Ointment Fenistil for children is recommended from the first month to relieve inflammation of the skin.

Fenistil drops are prescribed from the first month of 3 drops. Bringing up to 10 cap. Repeat reception 3 times a day. These drops from allergies are considered very effective for newborns.

Before starting treatment with antihistamines, use a good proven folk method to wipe the baby's cheeks with a string and use a baby cream based on chamomile and only after that go to the strong means.