Babies and Food Allergies

The first cases of food allergy have been reported in Europe in the early twentieth century and 40 years was recognized by doctors worldwide. Food allergies are more common in childhood, during the first year of life when the child is first confronted with potentially allergenic foods and then begins to create the mechanisms of immune tolerance.

Milk and eggs, along with fish are the major food allergens during childhood. This statement is made by the results of a study of the Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SEAIC) determined that the foods most commonly implicated in such allergies in children under 5 years is 82% milk, followed by egg with 76% and 50 % fish. Other foods that can cause allergies in children are peanuts, tree nuts, soy.

Breast milk is not foreign to the body baby, breast milk does not cause allergies. On the contrary, milk is rich in immunologists of type A, which are antibodies against allergies and infections, especially gastrointestinal, since they increase the impermeability of the intestinal wall, blocking the passage of a greater number of allergens in the blood.