Food allergy at children

One of types of food intolerance is food allergy at children which cornerstone difficult immunologic mechanisms are. As a rule, the allergy to food is shown on the first year of life of the child when it begins to try various products. It is important to know that this phenomenon becomes the reason of development of all subsequent allergic diseases of the kid. Besides, the allergy to food is capable to provoke allergic vasculites, and also to support damages of kidneys, digestive tract, cardiovascular and nervous systems etc.

Symptoms of food allergy at children

All symptoms of food allergy at children can be divided into system and local allergic reactions. Carry an acute anaphylaxis to system, and local are divided, in turn, into gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin reactions of an organism.

Gastrointestinal symptoms of food allergy at children usually include:

• Nausea;
• Vomiting;
• Vomiting;
• Lock or unstable chair;
• Aphthous stomatitis;
• Abdominal pains;
• Gripes;
• Diarrhea;
• Meteorism.

Gastrointestinal allergic reactions meet in most cases a children's allergy to food and often can be followed by hypostasis of lips and language.

It is possible to distinguish the following from the most widespread respiratory displays of children's food allergy:

• Allergic rhinitis;
• Spastic cough throughout long time;
• Recurrent pulmonary infiltrates;
• Recurrent bronkhoobstruktivny syndrome.

Skin symptoms of food allergy at children act as the most widespread manifestations of similar disturbances. The most bystry reactions of an organism to the certain product causing an allergy are urticaria, a strophulus, a Quincke's edema, atopic and contact dermatitis.

Together with it it should be noted that clinical displays of children's food allergy in many respects depend on bodies or systems of an organism which are struck. Besides, the products used regularly, as a rule, provoke less characteristic allergic reactions whereas the ingredients which are seldom used in food cause acute manifestations at which there is a clear communication with meal.

Komarovsky about food allergy at the child

Famous doctor Komarovsky at food allergy at the child strongly recommends to refuse products which provoked it first of all. To define them for parents will not make special work as they best of all know that their kid on the eve of allergic reaction of an organism ate. If such food got into a stomach, the famous doctor advises to make to the child an enema for cleaning of a stomach of allergen.

Together with it Komarovsky considers food allergy at the child the phenomenon which quite often passes in itself after a while. Therefore the product excluded from a diet can try to be given to the child 2-2,5 later. Only it is necessary to resume its use carefully and in small quantities. However at the advanced children's age to make similar experiments it is almost useless as unresponsiveness at children at this stage develops extremely seldom.

For treatment of food allergy at the child Komarovsky advises use of medicines, but only when diets are inefficient and there is an allergic reaction to several products. The doctor also advises drugs when it is impossible to refuse products which contain allergen, or it is impossible to establish the allergy reason.

Treatment of food allergy at children

Many specialists hold the opinion that the best way of treatment of food allergy at children are diets. The hypoallergenic diet for the child is based on an exception of a diet of the products containing allergen and also the food irritating mucous digestive tract, containing food dyes, preservatives, emulsifiers etc. The diet at food allergy to children assumes replacement of similar products with natural and specialized food.

It is possible to distinguish from such products:

• Medical and preventive mixes with hydrolyzates of milk protein which can be given to the child since the birth;
• Hypoallergenic milk porridges;
• Specialized mixes with isolate of soy protein which children can use from half a year;
• The hypoallergenic monocomponent vegetable, fruit and berry purees recommended for consumption for children from half a year;
• Hypoallergenic canned food from meat (a turkey, a horse-flesh etc.) for the child aged from 10 months.

Specialists note that the diet at food allergy to children should not exclude maternal milk in favor of a feeding up. It is caused by the fact that it not only contains the nutrients and vitamins necessary for the kid, but also protective factors, enzymes and hormones.

Treatment of food allergy at children quite often assumes also use of medicines. The most widespread of them are:

• Probiotics;
• Drugs of kromogliyevy acid;
• Glucocorticosteroids;
• Enterosorbents;
• Enzymes.

Together with it it should be noted that many even antihistaminic drugs which are designed to neutralize a histamine in the child's organism have side effects. Care is demanded also by hormonal food allergy medicine as they can also provoke problems with immunity, the excess weight and increase in risk of bacterial complications. Therefore doctors recommend to use the local hormonal drugs which are not making such strong impact on a children's organism.

To get rid of skin manifestations, at treatment of food allergy at children antihistamines are recommended. It is possible to distinguish drops from them Fenistil, speakers to one of the few antihistaminic drugs which can be applied from first month of life of the child. These drops in 15-40 minutes eliminate symptoms of allergic rhinitis, facilitate breath, and also save from an itch at skin displays of food allergy at children.