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Food allergy symptoms can occur anytime. Type of food causes are also varied. Types of allergens can also increase or decrease over time. Especially for individuals whose families have a history of allergies, the risk of allergic responses can appear at any time, including when he was an infant to adulthood.
Symptoms are mild and severe. In infants with allergies, there are a number of substances that are actually beneficial to the body, such as substances contained in food, by the baby's immune system is rejected and considered an enemy to the body. Allergy symptoms appear. Allergy symptoms in infants are commonly found in the skin (eczema), respiratory tract (clogged nose, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, or tightness), eyes, and gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea, or difficult bowel movements). Symptoms can be classified as mild, if disruption to the body functions a little, such as cold but the child is still quiet sleep and eat-drink is not disturbed. While the symptoms are classified as heavy when making a child unable to perform normal functions, such as shortness of breath.
Handling by doctor. When allergy symptoms appear in infants, you immediately take him to the doctor. Doctors will usually feel more confident if the case is a case of allergies when there is a pattern of repetition. That is, every encounter of suspected foreign material, then allergy symptoms appear; and if this foreign material is exposed, the allergy symptoms will disappear.
If you have confirmed allergic infants, especially food allergies, there are 3 stages of allergic treatments commonly performed by doctors, namely:
- Avoid allergens. To ascertain the type of allergy, the doctor will likely perform an allergy test. The most accurate test name is a provocation test. Sometimes from highly suggestive parenting stories, doctors can immediately ask for evasion.
- With drugs, the goal is to relieve the symptoms of allergies that appear.
- Immunotherapy. You do this by giving the allergen extract gradually from very little to near the usual amount encountered in nature. This method has not been routinely done for food allergies.
As the baby grows and the development of his digestive system, the overreaction of his immune system to substances that were initially considered allergens, gradually diminishes. Allergic reactions in children will begin to disappear at the age of 2-3 years.
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