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Often are your toddler experiences sneezing, vomiting, recurring diarrhea, or reddish spots accompanied by itching? This indicates that toddlers are attacked by allergies.
Forms of allergy can be obtained from anywhere either because of congenital or family ancestry or environmental factors. When a child experiences such a case, take it to a doctor for further treatment and Moms should know what causes your toddler to have allergies.
Are Allergies Associated With Toddler Growth?
The answer is YES.
So, when an allergic toddler will tend to make him feel uncomfortable to be able to reduce his appetite. In fact, nutritional intake plays an important role in the growth of infants.
Allergies in toddlers are often influenced by foods such as eggs, chicken, seafood, or other food items. So parents should be careful in determining allergies in toddlers.
Not that he is limited by all his food. This makes the child's nutritional intake to be reduced so that it affects the child's weight loss.
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Some of the Risks of Allergies Infants' Allergies Risk:
- 20 percent of children have a lower body height at the beginning of the diagnosis
- 10 percent less nutritional status in cow's milk allergy children
- The symptoms caused toddler sleep to be not qualified
- Lower weight and height risk are found in infants with atopic dermatitis than healthy babies
- The history of asthma is at risk for growth disorders. This usually depends on the degree of asthma, the age of diagnosis, long-term steroid use, or impaired lung function.
If your toddler has one of the risk factors above, then Moms should conduct more intense supervision aimed at ensuring the child's growth can run optimally. Supervision that Moms can do is to monitor and identify more clearly allergy symptoms that occur, the source of allergies and intervene.
Interventions that can be done is to monitor the child's nutritional intake as well as replace it with nutrition that is easier to digest. Moms can also do prevention by giving exclusive breastfeeding for infants up to the age of 6 months. This proved effective in preventing the onset of food allergies in children later.
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