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Food Allergies in Children

What do you do when a small fell ill an allergic reaction? Immediately stop the trigger food? Or even forward it by the hope that children will become immune when you continue to be food allergies that make? Dr. Zakiudin Munasir, Sp.A (K)., Of the Health Sciences Department of Child Health and immunology, FKUI-RSCM Jakarta, reveal all about allergies. Hopefully this article can answer all questions concerning allergic wedge.

What actually causes food allergy?
Food allergies occur due to an immune reaction to the deviant symptoms and cause the body harm. Generally, the body’s immune system attacks the bacteria, viruses, or foreign substances that are dangerous to enter the body. Food allergy occurs because the body’s immune system incorrectly interpret certain food components (usually proteins), so that food is considered as a dangerous substance which is then attacked by the body’s immune system. Nah, this is a reaction to deviate.

Who can suffer allergies?
Food allergies occur in children and allergic really have any talent allergy (atopik). Food allergy can be experienced in the first years of life of children. This is related to channel  children who have not been perfect. The more mature channel digestion, children will be more tolerant to receive various types of food. Usually, food allergy after the age of entering school can be overcome, and most disappear by themselves. However, there are also ongoing to adults, especially those who have a history  allergic reaction or have talent.

What kind of food can be a spark allergy?
In fact, all foods can cause allergies. However, between one food with another food allergy have a degree (strength cause allergies) are different. For example, shrimp are allergenic than fruit. But each person has a different intensity of symptoms. For example, on a child, shrimp-only irritate only mild itching. But on the other children until shortness of breath.

Food is the most often be triggered allergies?
* Milk cow
The reaction can be diarrhea or vomiting. Baby (because of a matter that can not suckle ASI) and the suffering allergic to cow milk, may not get regular milk formula. Generally, for them, the doctor will suggest special milk formula derived from cow milk, but is processed in such a way so that it does not cause allergies in babies. Usually, allergic milk settle this beef until the end of the age of the children. Generally, people not only allergic to milk cows, but also the processed products, such as ice cream, cheese, and so forth. But then it does not mean children should not drink milk, as cows are still milk from soybean. Types of nuts have a low allergenic nature, especially after the heating process.

* Seafood (seafood)
For example, fish, shrimp, prawn (lobster), crab, oyster, tuna, and others. Symptoms that arise are often urinary-itch or itching in the body.

* Eggs
Both white and yellow eggs. Reaction allergenic more on the itch-itch in the body. Can be a visible skin redness or swelling, swelling.

* Nuts
Allergy cases in the United States against the type of beans is high enough. Some cases even cause death due to shock anaphylaxis (condition in which the throat swell so that the channel is closed and the breath blood pressure had fallen dramatically). This is very rarely found in Indonesia. Types of beans that can cause allergies are peanuts, cashew nuts, and the like. Symptoms are usually a reaction to itch-itch in the throat.

Can children experience allergic vegetables or fruits?
Can. Usually allergic to the stuff found in children who have the talent to pollen allergy plant. Allergic reaction to vegetables is usually a feeling of itching, itching in the mouth. In fact, cooking with vegetables and cooked in true nature allergen may be lost and does not cause allergies in children. Children who are allergic to vegetables in general are also allergic to nuts. To find out allergy tests are usually conducted allergens i.e. asparagus, lettuce, cabbage flowers, spinach, tomatoes, and broccoli. While the fruits that cause allergies usually apple, peach, cherry, pear, strawberry, jackfruit, wine, bananas, oranges, and so forth. Reaction in the form of reddish skin.

Are there any foods that often make children allergic?
Various snack can also cause allergies in children. This relates to the process of making the food itself that use chemicals or additional (additive substances). As the preservative, coloring materials, bleach, sheathing, the pH, yeast food, solvent and sweetener, spices made, and so forth. Reaction as itchy and dry taste in the throat. In the list, such as skin tests performed in some hospitals, there are also some food substances allergens likely suspect such as chocolate, wheat flour, maizena, and soya.

How to prevent allergies in children?
Prevention of food allergy in children can be started as early as possible with the provision of exclusive breastfeeding. On a talented baby allergy, breastfeeding mothers should avoid foods that can result in a reaction to the baby. Since the age of 6 months introduce a baby on the type of food gradually and does not select the / rarely cause allergy, such as rice, carrot, pear, prune, and avocado. Then introduce food that can cause allergies, but can still be tolerated, such as wheat, oatmeal, meat, goat, chicken, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, spinach, corn oil, and bananas.

At the age of 9 months, babies can start given the possibility of causing food allergies, such as yellow (cooked must be cooked), beans (soy beans, and green), and fresh water fish. New at the age of 12 months, a small start on the food that introduced most likely cause allergies such as sea food, egg white, and peanut.

What to do when food allergy reaction occurs?
If children are consumes food as the suspected fuse allergenic (e.g., shrimp, fish, crabs, and other), he requested not to eat again. Allergic reactions-although even that is mild, such as itching or lips only appear reddish-diwaspadai still need to be fixed because if mengonsumsinya thus can result in fatal. Consult your doctor on the condition of children. Generally, doctors meresepkan akan drugs antialergi accordance with the reaction. If the reaction itchy-itchy akan then treated with standard treatment eksimnya. Drugs most widely used is the antihistamin. If the reaction was so heavy as anafilaksis, paramedics will inject drugs and steroid epinefrin to stop peradangannya.

If the child is suffering from allergies, if he can avoid it?
Can. Ie, avoid the foods that are considered to be allergic to fuse. Need to know about patience and carefulness in work conducted in the parents of the child’s daily life. In addition, to ensure necessary support and consulting a doctor. So, parents do not play original food abstinence only because it can disrupt the growth of the child.

How do reactions that appear to anchor food allergy occur?
Occurs when the body’s reaction to food allergies can be fast, can also slow. In the allergic reaction that quickly, so the food into the body (and have not absorbed), the body is showing the reaction, such as itching, itching in the mouth and throat, or in severe cases the swelling occurs in the respiratory channel so that the cause of shortness of breath. In the slow reaction, the food into the alimentary tract was first absorbed by the body, a new show of the reaction, can be diarrhea (sometimes accompanied by blood due to inflammation of the bowel), vomiting, itching, and redness (skin in organ ), cold (in the nose organ), the eyes become red and itchy (in the eyes of organs).