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Allergies are one of the chronic diseases that can threaten the growth of children. It is important for parents to be aware of allergic risk factors in children, recognize symptoms, including how to prevent and treat them.
Child Development Consultant Cipto Mangungkusumo Hospital (RSCM), Dr. Rini Sekartini, said, one of the most important prevention is the provision of nutrition in early life. These nutrients should be easy to digest and tolerant for children who are allergic to cow's milk proteins.
"Nutrition received by children in the womb until about two years has a very big role in the quality of growth and development of children and the level of health in adulthood," said Rini in the Nutritalk event themed Early Life Nutrition: Basic and Practical Guidelines Optimization of Child Growth with Allergy Protein Milk Cow, in Jakarta, Thursday (24/3).
However, Rini added, there is a certain nutritional intake at the beginning of life that actually contains the nutrients needed to support child growth, but is not tolerated by children with allergic risks. One of them is the milk protein allergy.
Children with this allergy risk, continued Rini, will provide abnormal reactions to nutrient intake containing cow milk nutrition because of the interaction between one or more proteins with one or more immune mechanisms of children.
"Early in life, the intake of nutrients that contain cow's milk protein can be a complementary food of milk or food, balanced food, and breast milk from mothers who consume nutrients containing cow's milk protein," he explained.
Therefore, according to Rini, appropriate nutrition intervention is needed for children with an allergy risk to cow's milk protein, so they avoid allergen triggers, but also still get the nutrients needed to support optimal growth and development.
"One of the nutritional interventions given to children who are intolerant of cow's milk protein is with partially hydrolyzed proteins," says Rini.
Early Treatment
Allergic Immunology Consultant of Padjadjaran University Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Budi Setiabudiawan, said that no matter what the risk of allergic children, early handling needs to be taken so that children avoid the long-term effects of allergies and growth is not hampered.
"Especially for children with allergic risks due to parents' history, more intense supervision is required to ensure optimal growth," Budi said.
Such supervision, he added, included monitoring and recognizing clinical symptoms of allergies, recognizing trigger allergens, monitoring nutritional intake and replacing nutrients with a more digestible and tolerant.
According to Budi, children with both parents have a history of allergies have an allergy risk in the future by 40-60 percent. This risk, he explained, is even greater in children with both parents who have a history of allergies and similar manifestations, which is 60-80 percent.
While a child with one parent has a history of allergies will also be at risk of allergies by 20-30 percent. If you have a history of allergies is a brother, then the child at risk 25-30 percent. In fact, children with parents who do not have a history of allergies were at risk of experiencing 5-15 percent.
Source : beritasatu.com
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