Protein skimping is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes many symptoms. As it is not preventable, the focus should be on actions that reduce the severity of symptoms. The basis is a properly composed diet. Check out how your baby’s diet should look like.
Protein contamination is a common name for food allergy, which usually takes the form of atopic dermatitis (AD). Although its causes are not fully understood, genetic and environmental factors play an important role.
Is it a protein blemish?
However, before making any nutritional changes to your baby’s diet, make sure that your symptoms actually indicate protein blemishes.
The disease is manifested mainly by the occurrence of skin lesions in the area of the face (e.g. strong redness of cheeks), hands and legs, abdomen. Depending on the severity, the lesions may take the form of small flakes or small red pustules.
Moreover, symptoms typical of atopic dermatitis may be accompanied by gastrointestinal complaints, e.g. diarrhea (also with blood admixture), vomiting, constipation, colic.
What should I give my child with protein blemishes?
Protein contamination is a result of malfunctioning of the child’s immune system. As a result, the body reacts incorrectly to some of the ingredients in the food. Allergy can be associated with the consumption of food products such as wheat, soya, fish, citrus and nuts. However, during infancy, the protein flaw is most often directly related to products containing cows’ milk protein, e.g. casein and whey proteins.
So what to keep in mind when composing a diet for your child?
No more allergenic foods.
It is necessary to apply an elimination diet, the essence of which is to exclude food products containing allergens. So don’t give your baby dairy products such as yoghurts, kefirs or cheesecakes.
Specialists recommend that the elimination diet be conducted for a period of at least 6 months – up to about 9-12 months of a child’s life.
Replace excluded products by other ones.
The elimination diet is not only about excluding allergenic groups of foods. In order to prevent deficiency of vitamins and minerals in the child’s body, all the eliminated foods should be replaced with other ones. They must be products that provide the same amount of nutrients as the eliminated ones.
Change in modified milk
If you give your baby modified milk and only suspect an allergy to cow’s milk protein, it is worth changing it to hypoallergenic milk, which contains cow’s milk protein with a slight degree of hydrolysis.
However, if your child is diagnosed with an allergy to cow’s milk protein, then the paediatrician should recommend a so-called milk replacer containing cow’s milk protein with a high degree of hydrolysis.
Remember that a child’s protein blemish poses a high risk of allergic reactions to allergens other than cow’s milk protein. This is why you must be particularly careful when introducing other foods into your baby’s diet.
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