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best way to stand up to allergies is prevention, and to be prevented, timely information is needed. Within the wide range of foods available, there are foods that are more likely to be rejected by children. The most that can protect the baby is undoubtedly breast milk. Breastfeeding must be extended all possible, at least until six months of life of the child. Medical institutions become even recommending the extension of the period to the year.

At the time the mother, the circumstances that are not able to produce breast milk or it is unsuitable for the baby, start replacement feeding, and sometimes, the child may be sensitive to certain preparations. This stage of discovery for the child and tests and warning to the mother.

As the child is fulfilling months and your immune system is stronger, your diet will include more foods. As recommended from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, until, we recommend starting with fruit, meat, rice and vegetables. These foods account for allergies much lower levels than others, why we have to wait until the child exceeds the year to include in their milk and dairy foods or cereals such as corn or wheat. At age two years, come into play with more risk foods: fish, eggs and nuts, especially peanuts.

Some useful tips
First, any suspicion or symptom, you must go to the pediatrician for relevant evidence and identify those allergens to which the child is especially sensitive. It is the physician who must explain the measures we take when these reactions are detected, however, a number of useful tips that we will prevent more than a scare.

Exert control over making sure meals at home, discarding the cooked dishes. When purchasing these products, read the ingredients on canned and other canned and frozen products. It is essential that we provide a list of those food components harmful to the child if they know their allergies.

Purchase child eating

in many cases, detecting an ingredient that causes allergy is a difficult task because the names vary and may be misleading. From Nestle alert us with several examples. Imagine that your child has developed allergies to nuts and buy a bar of milk chocolate.

It has been a case of extremely sensitive children, from eating milk chocolate have been bad. This is due to the machine where the chocolate is made; you may have traces of nuts the earlier development of chocolate from this variety.

Labels should be examined carefully and consider issues such as that sometimes there is one among the components that are not noted for its tiny amount. When you go out to eat at a restaurant, we will ensure that there is no risk in the dishes served to the child, questioning the origin of food and banishing any possibility of unexpected reaction. When in doubt, it is best not to eat.

Always good to have on hand a kit of drugs that can be administered to the child in an emergency. The pediatrician is the one to prescribe these medications are generally based on corticosteroids, antihistamines and even adrenaline. If there is a history of allergies in the family, higher-risk foods should be avoided and monitor, even if possible, the child’s diet.

guilty of these disorders is none other than one’s own person’s immune system. If you suffer from an allergy, it is because our body identifies as offensive substances actually are not and therefore react inappropriately causing the unpleasant symptoms we suffer. That is, in an attempt to defend itself produces chemicals that cause allergic reactions. Simple exposure to allergens causes these reactions, either by physical contact, ingestion or inhalation.

Some of these conditions are hereditary, and that parents are allergic makes children more prone to allergies. It is also true that some children develop allergies that are not from their families. In any case, if you can say that a child who is allergic to something likely to be as well to others.

An enemy seasonal

leonel tooth pollen produced by trees and flowers is one of the main elements that cause these diseases. Symptoms appear in the heat of summer, when the allergen spreads and fills the air we breathe. For most this fact we almost unnoticed, but there are few who are threatened with these small particles. A threat to welfare, it is very annoying withstand the constant whining, itching and sneezing that produce irritation of the mucous membranes of eyes and nose.

The symptoms of hay fever can be controlled with medication administration, topically or orally, at the right time, but there are control measures to prevent the manifestation of the allergy. Hyposensitization is the ideal prevention; it is based on regular injection of increasing doses of those allergens to which the person is sensitive, so you are ready to tolerate it better. The only drawback of immunotherapy is its long duration: lasts, on average, for about three years.

florOtras wasp measures to help alleviate the effects of allergy are careful not to take the field in spring and summer, especially on windy, and move to coastal areas on weekends and holidays, as the humidity makes pollen is deposited on the ground instead of remaining suspended in the air. Given this, spray the rooms with water makes the air is cleaner and close the windows when you are sleeping, helps prevent reactions.

It is also advisable down the windows when traveling by car or wear sunglasses to prevent eye irritation.

Is a serious disorder that occurs when the body’s defense system (immune system) attacks the nervous system by mistake. This leads to nerve inflammation, which causes muscular weakness.

Causes

Guillain-Barre syndrome is an autoimmune disorder (the body’s own immune system attacking itself) and it is unknown exactly what triggers. The syndrome may occur at any age but is most common in people of both sexes between the ages of 30 and 50.

Often follows a minor infection, usually a respiratory infection or gastrointestinal infection. The signs of the original infection have disappeared before the onset of symptoms of Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Guillain-Barre syndrome causes inflammation that damages parts of nerves. This nerve damage causes tingling, muscle weakness and paralysis. The inflammation usually affects the nerve’s covering (myelin sheath). This damage is called demyelization and reduces the transmission of nerve signals. Damage to other parts of the nerve can cause the nerve to stop working.

Guillain-Barre syndrome may occur along with viral infections such as.

* AIDS
* Herpes Simplex
* Mononucleosis

It may also occur with other medical conditions such as lupus erythematosus or Hodgkin’s disease.

Some people may develop this syndrome after suffering a bacterial infection or receive certain vaccines (such as rabies and swine flu). A similar syndrome can occur after surgery or when a patient is in critical condition.