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Your breastfeeding diet: food allergies and irritants
If you’re a breastfeeding mum, you need to manage your diet because minute traces of all the foods you eat end up in your breastmilk. Usually this is a good thing: some experts believe that breastfed babies enjoy the variation in flavour caused by day-to-day changes in your diet. The downside is that certain foods…
Peanut allergy during pregnancy
For most people, peanuts are a useful and nutritious food. However, peanuts can cause a dangerous allergic reaction in a few children. Some experts feel that if a child is at risk of peanut allergy this problem may start to develop during pregnancy. Your baby may be at risk of peanut allergy if you, your baby’s father or…
Posted in Allergies - food, Pregnancy Health Tagged allergy, asthma, British Allergy Foundation, eczema, food allergy, Hayfever, Midwife, nut allergy, peanuts, Pregnancy Leave a comment
Milk Allergy: Ramana’s story
Milk Allergy Cow’s milk is an essential food for many toddlers, yet for baby Ramana Harris it could have killed him. He suffered a serious allergic reaction to a milk ingredient in fruit and yoghurt cereal when he was just three and a half months old. Shashi’s story Ramana’s mum Shashi Agnihotri, of Leicester, was…
Radio 2 DJ Janey Lee Grace shouts out about E-numbers
I’m gonna ban all E numbers from the house! The saying ‘you are what you eat’ is pretty scary when it comes to some of my children’s little friends. ‘Why not invite that greasy hamburger in a white bun over’ I ought to be asking, or – ‘is that caffiene and sugar laden can of Cola coming over…
Posted in Allergies - food, Baby Health, Weaning Tagged allergy, artificial chemicals, Breastfeeding, food allergy, Weaning Leave a comment
Does your child have a food intolerance or allergy?
Parents are more aware today of the dangers of food intolerance or allergy. But many myths still surround the whole issue… What’s the difference between food allergy and food intolerance? A food allergy usually causes an immediate reaction after eating the culprit food. The body’s immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance such as peanuts and…
Posted in Allergies - food, Weaning Tagged allergy, baby food, Egg allergy, first food, food, Food additives, intolerence, Milk allergy, Weaning Leave a comment
Eating apples during pregnancy can benefit babies
Women who eat plenty of apples during pregnancy could be protecting their baby from developing asthma, according to research. The study, conducted by the University of Aberdeen and funded by the charity Asthma UK, also found that eating more fish in pregnancy lowered a child’s risk of developing allergic eczema. The researchers said they did…
Living with a milk allergy
Liz Sarkissian talks out about her son’s milk allergy. “Please do not take away his dignity by dismissing the seriousness” My son is now almost six years old. He has a severe milk allergy – he will not grow out of it. He is one of those ‘rare’ cases that people casually refer to, but rarely discuss.…
Posted in Allergies - food, Community Tagged asthma, Case study, dairy products, milk, Milk allergy, Weaning Leave a comment
Milk for our children : for and against
To most of us, milk is the best, nutritious food we can give to our children but a new report by the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation (VVF) is calling for health warnings to be placed on dairy products amidst claims that they cause cancer, diabetes and numerous other diseases. The VVF suggest that humans are unnatural because they…
My son’s nut allergy nearly killed him
Just ten minutes after tasting cashew nut butter for the first time, Tina Burchill’s seven-month-old son Thomas was in an ambulance on the way to casualty – he had suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction… Calling the ambulance It started as an ordinary teatime. Thomas was with his dad, eating cashew nut butter spread on bread. I…
Posted in Allergies - food Tagged adrenaline, anaphylactic shock, Anaphylaxis Campaign, Case study, Cashew, Nut, nut allergy Leave a comment
Christmas Vegetarian Recipes
With more and more people choosing a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, we look at a preparing a meat-free Christmas feast! Babyworld mums reveal what they dish up on Christmas day and these recipes come highly recommended by Kerry Blanchard a vegan herself and moderator of our Vegan/vegetarian discussion forum. We asked our vegetarian and vegan members what…
Posted in Allergies - food, Recipes, Weaning Tagged Christmas, Christmas Food and Recipes, Christmas Recipes, Nut roast, Recipes, vegetarian food Leave a comment
