Child Allergies
During the first few crucial years of life, many new things change for a child. A child begins to understand new things, there is an increase in their vocabulary, and they develop the ability to communicate with others. A child’s eating habits will also begin to change. Children can become pickier eaters; they must have a certain food or have that food prepared in a particular manner. As a parent you must be equipped with all of the tools that it may require to care for your child. You will need to be alert and attentive when it comes to the foods that your child eats because it is at a young age that children can develop allergies. Some of these are food allergies but there are also many other kinds. Children can develop …show more content…
These allergies can present out of nowhere, and can often be deadly. The food that your child has eaten time and time again, may now be something they can no longer have, and one day may cause an allergy, presenting itself as a rash or in the worst cast scenario anaphylaxis. Parents may wonder what causes these allergies. Allergies starts when your immune system perceives a certain substance, possibly that of something quite harmless, as that as something it needs to send antibodies to destroy, and with this the antibodies are always around to perceive this harmless thing as a threat and react accordingly. An article written by Amrol,Cox,Hardin,Love,Lu,Mann (2016) states that “In the United States, food allergy affects between 4 and 8% of children and is most prevalent during the first years of life. From 1997 to 2007, the prevalence of reported food allergy increased 18% among children under age of 18 years.” The article by Amrol,Cox,Hardin,Love,Lu,Mann (2016) theorized that:
Newborn children need exposure to immunogenic material to develop a healthy, functional immune system. Changes in the composition, richness, and abundance of microbiota that colonize the human gut during infancy has been theorized to play a role in development in atopic disease, including food allergen
During the first few crucial years of life, many new things change for a child. A child begins to understand new things, there is an increase in their vocabulary, and they develop the ability to communicate with others. A child’s eating habits will also begin to change. Children can become pickier eaters; they must have a certain food or have that food prepared in a particular manner. As a parent you must be equipped with all of the tools that it may require to care for your child. You will need to be alert and attentive when it comes to the foods that your child eats because it is at a young age that children can develop allergies. Some of these are food allergies but there are also many other kinds. Children can develop …show more content…
These allergies can present out of nowhere, and can often be deadly. The food that your child has eaten time and time again, may now be something they can no longer have, and one day may cause an allergy, presenting itself as a rash or in the worst cast scenario anaphylaxis. Parents may wonder what causes these allergies. Allergies starts when your immune system perceives a certain substance, possibly that of something quite harmless, as that as something it needs to send antibodies to destroy, and with this the antibodies are always around to perceive this harmless thing as a threat and react accordingly. An article written by Amrol,Cox,Hardin,Love,Lu,Mann (2016) states that “In the United States, food allergy affects between 4 and 8% of children and is most prevalent during the first years of life. From 1997 to 2007, the prevalence of reported food allergy increased 18% among children under age of 18 years.” The article by Amrol,Cox,Hardin,Love,Lu,Mann (2016) theorized that:
Newborn children need exposure to immunogenic material to develop a healthy, functional immune system. Changes in the composition, richness, and abundance of microbiota that colonize the human gut during infancy has been theorized to play a role in development in atopic disease, including food allergen