Breast-fed or bottle, baby will gradually discover new gustatory pleasures. But be careful, step dietary diversification is difficult to manage! When will introduce vegetables, meat and fish?Doctissimo tells you all for the first meal … without stopping!

Baby grows, and you want him to taste something other than milk …

1. Not too fast!

No rush! Baby must remain in the milk until at least four months (and six is better)! Why?Because the number of food allergies in children is rising steadily, partly because diversification of food too early. For certain ingredients, the introduction should be delayed even longer: not before six months for gluten grains and ten months for the eggs. And go easy, no more than one new food at a time. But do not wait too long either, some scientists think it might cause eating disorders, and in particular a neophobia: not having been accustomed to a variety of foods when he was receptive, the child would then more resistant to the discovery of new tastes.

2. Stages of diversification

These steps are given as an example. Ask your doctor for menus to suit your baby!

Of course, the milk remains in the center of baby food, other foods will not replace a progressive manner.

3. Not enough fat!

When you change the diet and baby, not easy to give him exactly what he needs. If breast milk or formula milks have a composition that corresponds to its needs, it is now up to you to avoid imbalances. Please note that such babies today lack of fat, so why not add a small knob of butter on their spinach! According to a survey conducted by Professor Marc Fantino Dijon SOFRES, nutrition of children between four months and two years contains between 29 and 33% fat, while milk contains 45%. Moreover, contributions in Omega 3 and Omega 6 are insufficient. Remember to put fish on the menu!

4. Beware of excess

In contrast, the amounts of protein in the first baby food are too high. According to Professor Fantino, these contributions would be three to four times higher than those recommended! But there seems to be a direct link between this excess and future risks of obesity … Think promote vegetables!

Regarding salt, fortunately it does not seem to be any problems in the first months of dietary diversification. It is true that the baby products are highly controlled. The excess risk appeared later: from the age of 3 years, 50% of children exceed the recommended dietary intake (920 mg / d). Beware of chips!

Milk, peanuts, eggs, fish, shellfish, meat, meat, vegetables, spices, fresh and dried fruits, soy, wheat … food allergens are potentially endless and keep track if you are allergic!

The development of food allergy depends on a combination of factors both genetic and environmental. And this last century has seen a revolution in our eating habits may be partly responsible for an explosive increase in food allergies in the population.

1. The evils of globalization food

Strawberries, apples, peaches, avocados, kiwis, bananas, chestnuts, celery, carrots, walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts, sesame, sunflower, yeast, soy, figs, potatoes, wheat, barley, lentils, peas, sausage, pork , poultry, rice … The list of foods likely to be allergenic is endless! Milk powder for babies, diversification of early infant feeding, “fast-food products, exotic spices, restaurants of all culinary cultures worldwide, our diet has changed considerably and has opened for world food for better or for worse.

Add to that the technical changes in the food industry including pasteurization, désaromisation, freezing, adding flavor and colors … to be able safely say that nothing on our plates now more like our chicken the national pot of old. If, for most of us, this change in habits has many benefits for people who have inherited a genetic allergy is rapidly hell. And their numbers are growing.

2. The daily hunt to allergen

In the absence of breastfeeding, the first food allergens encountered most often infants are cow’s milk proteins. Thus, this allergy is it probably best known as the oldest of those with food allergies to egg.

But other nutrients are also responsible for allergies and adults. And then, the task is more difficult. Groundnut, in particular, this often hidden allergen in many preparations: pastries, sweets, ready meals, chocolate … Sesame and wheat flour also climb in the polls in force for new allergens. Often present at trace levels in many preparations, the hunt is proving to be a daily struggle that many families must lead. And if these families, with patience and careful attention to come out whole power control at home, this fight becomes much more difficult in catering: canteen, self, restaurant …

For today, the eviction of the allergen is the best principle of prevention of allergy can be manifested by a multitude of symptoms depending on the individual: eczema, hives, asthma, vomiting, diarrhea, anaphylactic shock can sometimes lead death if not taken care on time. But other symptoms may also be associated with certain food allergies, constipation, behavioral problems in children, irritability, insomnia, headaches. A very stressful daily hunt!

Two to 4% of adults are allergic to foods of various kinds. For the first time, French pulmonologists showed that these allergies are associated, in more than half of cases in adults, changes of the bronchi. Between food allergies and asthma, the differences are therefore more tenuous …

Food allergies are common. In young children, they often develop in response to proteins in cow’s milk, egg white and substances contained in peanuts. In adults, all kinds of foods may be involved.

1. A study in 35 adults allergic to fruits and vegetables

* The work conducted by the team of Prof. Benoît Wallaert in Lille, was performed in 19 adult women and 16 men, mean age 34 years. These people all had allergies to vegetables like carrots, celery, tomatoes or fruit such as kiwi, bananas, peaches or strawberries. These allergies are manifested by an inflammatory disease of the skin rather commonplace, hives, digestive problems like stomach aches or diarrhea but may have more severe reactions like swelling of the larynx or even signs of anaphylactic shock.

Two groups of patients were formed:

• One had previously developed an allergic rhinitis or asthma, the disease is so often connected with mites, tiny animals contained in the bedding (16 people);
• The other has no such history (19 issues).

2. Allergies are foodborne, but are also affected bronchi

Pulmonologists Lille expected that adults who have submitted in the past with allergic asthma or hay develop an overreaction of the bronchi in the administration of a drug, methacholine. The latter causes them to narrow and, consequently, a decreased ability to expire.

If this test was positive in these patients, the surprise has been in the second group. Although never developed respiratory allergy, its members showed an exaggerated and sustained reactivity of the bronchi in relatively high proportions (10 of 19 positive responses in this patient population, or 53%, against 13 out of 16 in the first group of patients, or 81%).

3. Asthmatics are more reactive digestive mucosa

To Prof. Benoît Wallaert, the explanation lies in the fact that “a common response of all digestive and bronchial mucosa may develop against an allergen. In support of this hypothesis, data from a study conducted four years ago by the Lille team. Indeed, it was shown that asthmatics have abnormalities of the digestive mucosa and often complain of gastrointestinal problems.

1, milk, soy milk
These two foods contain high protein, empty stomach, the protein will be “forced” into heat energy consumed would not achieve the role of nutritional tonic. The correct way to drink and snacks, bread and other foods containing wheat flour with water, or two hours after dinner drink, or drink before bed can be.

2, yogurt

Fasting drinking yogurt, yogurt’s health benefits will decline, but two hours after dinner drink, or drink before going to bed, both nourishing care, promote digestion, but also the exhaust purge function.

3, liquor

Alcohol stimulates gastric fasting, for a long time could easily cause the gastritis, peptic ulcer disease. In addition, the people fasting, their blood sugar is low, then drinking, the body quickly hypoglycemia, brain glucose because of the lack of occurrence of the supply of functional disorders, dizziness, palpitations, cold sweats and hunger, serious who will hypoglycemic coma.

4, tea

Fasting tea to dilute the gastric juice, decreased digestive function, but also give rise to “tea drunk”, showing palpitation, dizziness, headache, fatigue, standing unstable.

5, sugar

Sugar is an easy digestion and absorption of food, fasting lot of sugar, the body can not produce enough insulin, a short time to maintain normal blood sugar, so that a sudden rise in blood glucose easily lead to diseases of the eye. And sugar are acidic foods, fasting sugar will damage the body’s acid-base balance and the balance of the various micro-organisms, adverse health.

6, persimmon, tomato

Contains more pectin, tannic acid, the substance reacts with the acid dissolution of the gel formation is difficult to block the formation of stomach stones easily.

7, banana

Bananas have more magnesium, fasting bananas will suddenly increase the body of magnesium and magnesium in the blood damage the body calcium balance, cardiovascular inhibition produced is not conducive to good health.

8, hawthorn, orange

Contains a large amount of organic acid, acid, hawthorn acid, citric acid, etc., empty stomach, gastric acid will jump on the gastric adverse stimulus, so that stomach fullness, belching, vomiting acidic water.

9, garlic

Strong Liexin with spicy garlic allicin, fresh garlic fasting, will gastric mucosa, intestinal wall caused by strong stimulation, gastrointestinal spasms, cramps.

10, sweet potato

Sweet potato contains tannin and gum will stimulate the stomach to secrete more acid, causing heartburn and other discomfort.

11, cold

Fasting state Baoyin various frozen foods, will stimulate gastrointestinal contracture occurs, for a long time is going to lead to disorders of various enzymatic reactions, induced gastrointestinal disease. In the women’s menstrual periods occur during the disorder will make.