Allergy in children

Allergies in children, as indeed, in adults, is manifested after exposure to any external (flowering plants, animal hair, household chemicals) stimuli or internal reactions to foods or medications. Most often the child has inherited allergy.

There are several types of allergies:

1. Food allergy. Even during breast-feeding mothers can sometimes notice that their children have unusual skin rash (cheeks, inside wrist) after eating particular product. Therefore, experienced doctors advise foreclose from your diet food such as: chocolate, mushrooms, honey, red fruits and vegetables, seafood, if you breastfeed. It is better to wait a little and not to eat a favorite product, thereby ensuring the child with good health and the possibility to eat the above products himself in the future without fear allergy.

2. Allergic (atopic) dermatitis in most cases occurs after adding complementary food or dry mixes to a diet of baby. It is treated fairly hard and long. Relief of symptoms is achieved by carefully taking care of skin integuments child.

3. “Home” allergy appears in children as the reaction to fur of pets, plants, tobacco smoke, dust, and household chemicals. In this type of allergy you should avoid the child’s contact with cats and dogs. Several times a day do wet cleaning to prevent accumulation of dust. Change active detergents to more forgiving – wash children’s clothing with plain soap without fragrances and additives. Do not keep your house plants with abundant blooms in the room where your child sleeps, it is desirable to remove all plants from the child’s room, since they are great dust collectors. Smoking parents must move away the place of smoking far from the child – it is better, of course, quit this habit for baby’s health.

All these precautions will help to maintain a healthy atmosphere in the house, and a qualified doctor will give the necessary recommendations for the treatment of allergies in children.

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