food allergies (was introduction)

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DD's ear infections stopped the minute we took her off dairy. She also gets

chiropractic adjustments whenever we notice a cold coming on. My chiropractor

showed us how to massage the sides of the neck to help ear blockages to soften

and drain. More info here:

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Re: food allergies (was " introduction " )

 

 

My daughter, age 2, currently has " daycare disease " and her ears have

been infected for two months. We went to the allergy doctor today

since I have a family history of allergies, allergies, allergies (but

not to food) and my husband's family has bad sinuses. She came up

negative!!!!! I have to get strict about a no dairy diet, as that has

helped some other ear infection sufferers I know. Anyone else have

suggestions?

 

>I've read that somewhere about kids who have animals in the house

>have fewer allergies. My husband has always been allergic to pretty

>much all animal hair and after only six months of having dogs and

>rats and mice he does much better, even around cats.

 

 

 

 

 

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The recent scholarship is that it doesn't really help anyway. And may make it

worse b/c thier little tummies can't handle the solid food.

Carol

 

Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote:

Oh man, agreed completely. At my 6 week checkup after my son was born

there was a very young girl in the waiting room with her baby and her mother. We

were talking and she mentioned giving her two week-old baby cereal to help him

sleep. My heart stopped and I said, " DON'T YOU GIVE THAT BABY CEREAL!!! " Her

baby's doctor had told her it was fine. ?? Same thing happened with my husband's

brother and his wife, and the wife's mother was trying to convince them that

their baby, only a couple of months old, would sleep better if they put cereal

in his bottle. I turned into a statistic machine, emphasizing that babies given

cereal that early are more likely to be overweight and diabetic (they're big

people). I don't care if it makes them sleep better!

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

robin koloms <rkoloms wrote: I think that pediatricians (though I

have not spoken with once since I was around fourteen) are a large part of this.

They are not well educated in nutrition and do not help parents learn when foods

should be introduced. Most parents do what their parents did or what their

friends do and are not aware of the potential harm of introducing certain foods

too soon.

 

Kadee M <abbey_road3012 wrote: The real question is: why are so many

children's immune systems freaking out like this?

 

Prescription drugs, over-vaccination, germophobia, insufficient diets, not

enough exercise or time outside in the sun, treating a cold like the ebola

virus, parents who expect their kids to be perfect... also I'm sure genetics

plays some role. There's too much working against these kids' immune systems and

not enough working for them, so they freak out. My dog has lupus and I believe

with all my heart it's because of the cheap food she ate, being out in the

weather all year, stress, you name it. It cleared up very nicely once she came

to live with us, go figure, in a more favorable environment. I'm not saying that

a deadly peanut allergy will go away if a child is treated differently (though

I'm sure in many cases it would help tremendously), just that from the time kids

are conceived they're " protected " from entirely too much good stuff like dirt

and bugs and other fun things. My mom was apalled when we got pet rats. She

didn't think the kids ought to handle them at all.

My daughter Leah adores them, and though she might get a few germs from them

it's not anything that will kill her, or even make her sick. Not that everybody

ought to go get their kids rats, just everybody ought to chill out and let the

kids get a few germs in their systems and stop poisoning them with medicine and

silly air fresheners and cleaners and sanitizers. My sister had asthma when she

was little, and her doctor told my mom to send her outside and make her play

till she can't anymore, give her a breathing treatment, and send her right back

out. She doesn't have asthma anymore. I think a lot of these problems could be

improved simply by changing a few simple things. Not all, but some, and it'd be

more than worth it.

 

Kadee Sedtal

 

 

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[Guest guest]

We had minimal issues when my daughter started preschool at 2-1/2, she was (and

is) sick less often and for shorter durations than the other munchkins. Get a

good echineacia (I will never learn to spell this) chewable, three weeks on and

one week off; we found this to be a great immune system builder, along with a

b-complex.

 

nged wrote: My daughter, age 2, currently has " daycare disease " and

her ears have

been infected for two months. We went to the allergy doctor today

since I have a family history of allergies, allergies, allergies (but

not to food) and my husband's family has bad sinuses. She came up

negative!!!!! I have to get strict about a no dairy diet, as that has

helped some other ear infection sufferers I know. Anyone else have

suggestions?

 

>I've read that somewhere about kids who have animals in the house

>have fewer allergies. My husband has always been allergic to pretty

>much all animal hair and after only six months of having dogs and

>rats and mice he does much better, even around cats.

 

 

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