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Breastfeeding

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…

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Milk allergy

Milk Allergy : Ramana’s story

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 just beginning…

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What you can do: Stings and bites

Being stung is a frightening experience for anyone, especially a young child, so the best thing you can do initially is to stay calm yourself and reassure your child. You should seek medical advice promptly if: Your child has been stung more than once by bees or wasps She’s been stung around the lips, mouth,…

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