If the breast-fed baby is lactose intolerant (usually a temporary condition following intestinal infection at this age), mothers can continue to breast-feed, or pump their milk and treat it with lactase enzyme, until the baby’s symptoms stop. Details concerning feeding the lactose-intolerant infant are provided. There is no point in mothers’ eliminating milk and milk products from their diet to treat lactose intolerance in the baby, because their breast milk will contain 6 percent lactose (w/v) regardless of whether or not they consume cow’s milk. (more…)
The most important aspect of managing food allergies in children and babies is to be sure that the developing child has each and every nutrient that is essential for its optimum growth and development. Deficiency in a critical nutrient in the early days can have enormous negative consequences that can, in some instances, last a lifetime. The words of a British group of practitioners eloquently express this most important aspect of infant feeding: (more…)
Oral allergy syndrome is one form of allergy that body have allergic reaction to fruits and vegetables. Based on statistics facts, The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology described that probably one third of people allergic to pollen may can extend and develop to oral allergy syndrome. As a matter of fact, not only pollen and fruits allergy are related, but pollen allergy can lead into the oral allergy to certain fruits and vegetables. (more…)
