Is Allergic Disease Allergy?

Baby allergy check

Allergic problems in children are still often discussed, many are questioning this one disease. Is it true that allergies are caused only by certain foods, drugs, and dust? Or is it possible that allergies are hereditary? Here's the explanation:

What is an allergy?

Allergies derived from the Greek, "Allon argon" means different reactions or deviate from normal to various stimuli/substances from outside the body such as food, dust, drugs and so forth. What about atopic allergy, what is it? Atopic comes from the Greek topos, meaning place, A-topos means out of place. In the medical world, this term means talent for the occurrence of allergies is inherited.

Anyone at high risk of allergies?

Infants at high risk of allergy and by definition AAP, high-risk allergic infants are babies with a strong allergy history in the family, ie allergies in both parents or allergies in one parent and at least 1 sibling. Infants who meet these criteria have a 40-60% risk of developing allergies later in life.

Here are allergy risk factors:

1. If you have a family history of allergies
2. When a pregnant mother smokes or is in a smoker's environment
3. Children do not get milk or just get it
4. Pollution
5. Diet

Clinical Symptoms

Symptoms of an allergic reaction usually appear first in childhood and may continue into adulthood. Approximately 20% of children <1-year-old have experienced reactions to food including allergic reactions. And it is realized that things that happen in childhood including allergies, can affect the process of development of children to adulthood.

Most of the first allergy symptoms are from the gastrointestinal tract, this is because the gastrointestinal tract is the first place to contact with food. In addition, it is swollen and itchy on the lips of the tongue and orofarings, pain and stomach cramps, vomiting to severe diarrhea with bloody stools.

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Food groups that often cause allergies:

1. Cow's milk
2. Telor
3. Nuts
4. Seafood

Foods that rarely cause allergies:

1. Chicken
2. Beef
3. Vegetables

Treatment and prevention of food allergies:

1. Elimination of food allergens. Replace with food that is worth to prevent malnutrition, and generally, food allergies will disappear within a certain period of time.
2. Exclusive breastfeeding. Breast milk is the production of the mother, so it generally does not contain foreign proteins that can trigger an allergic reaction. In addition, breast milk contains IgA is a useful antibody coating and protects the baby's gastrointestinal tract so that foreign proteins do not easily penetrate into the baby's bloodstream. Breast milk also contains a variety of other antibodies that can protect the baby from infection.
3. Breastfeeding/formula milk, the formula of processed cow's milk: Hypoallergenic (for prevention), Nonallergenic (for allergic cow's milk).
4. Avoiding cigarette smoke in pregnant and lactating mothers.
5. Use of antihistamine H1 and H2.