Children and Food Allergies
Children’s food allergies can cause parents immense amounts of anxiety. Lisa Cronin’s 7 year old daughter Samantha first developed a food allergy when she was only one month old. Lisa was nursing and supplementing with dairy based formula. “I noticed that she was developing some eczema. At that time I was unfamiliar with any type of children’s food allergy.” As an infant, Samantha suffered for months with eczema, but at 7 months her pediatrician suggested soy milk. It did the trick and the eczema cleared up. But, just a few months later, Lisa discovered that Samantha was allergic to milk. “I had given her a piece of cereal dipped in my skim milk and she got a little bit of red and little bumps that looked like small hives,” says Lisa. (Read more about Children and Food Allergies)
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