Against Baby Food Allergies?

Before you start giving solid foods (complementary foods Mother's Milk) to your baby, it's important to know about allergies that may occur in infants with food.

Rule 4 Day Waiting Period

This rule is especially important if you or your family have allergies to certain foods. "Rule 4 Day Waiting Period" is an easy way to check for food allergies. How? Basically, you should introduce one new food at a time and wait until 4 days before introducing the next new food.

For example, if you want to introduce your baby to the avocado on Monday, then you should you wait until Thursday to introduce the next new food.

With this sepert way, you can know better whether your baby has an allergic reaction to certain foods or not. In addition, if it turns negative reaction from your baby, this way will be able to distinguish whether it is an allergic reaction or problems in pencernaanya. Usually an allergic reaction will occur in the first 24 hours, whereas the digestive problems arising from the new food will look after more than 1 day 1 night.

Well, once you introduce some kind of food with "Rule 4 Day Waiting Period", then you can try menkombinasikan some food for your little recipe. Again, such preventive measures are well executed if you or your family have a "history of" food allergies.

Know also the difference between food allergy with the body's reaction to food.

8 Foods That Cause 90% emergence of the Food Allergy Cases

1. Milk

2. Eggs

3. Peanuts

4. Tree nut (walnut, cashew, etc.)

5. Fish

6. Clam

7. Soybean

8. Wheat

For milk, eggs, soy and wheat, could occur more mature the baby, allergic reactions to food will be lost.

Symptoms of Food Allergies

To find out if your baby has allergies to certain foods, then here are some symptoms that you should be aware of:

- Diarrhea that occurs suddenly
- Vomiting which occurred suddenly
- Skin rash issue
- Runny nose
- It's hard to breathe after eating a new food types
- Dizziness
- The face, lips or tongue to swell
- Throat is narrowed

Please note that food allergies are not the same as the body's reaction to food, where the latter is usually cause digestive disorders related to (colon).