Family Tips

According to all available information from the American pediatrists, only the following facts have been experimentally proved:

1. Breast feeding of the child with hereditary susceptibility to an allergy even for four months reduces risk of cow’s milk protein allergy and diathesis.

2. Breast feeding for three months reduces risk of a false croup, but whether it reduces risk of an asthma in more elder age – is not clear for the present time.

3. Soy-based breast milk substitutes do not reduce risk of an allergy. Hypo-allergenic milk formulas have some efficiency in this respect, but only “moderate” one.

4. Up to 4 - 6 months children do not need the solid food, but absence of eggs, fish and other potentially “allergenic” food in a diet of more senior children does not reduce risk of allergic reactions.

5. The women who have excluded from the diet some products for the time of pregnancy and breast feeding, cannot save children from an allergy - at least, researches do not confirm efficiency of such measures.