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nut lovers rejoice
Rant: When will we start learning not to listen to doctors and just live
and parent like everything is normal? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472339?mpid=26753 .... The researchers concluded that partial food avoidance strategies in the third trimester and during breastfeeding were not effective in preventing sensitization to food among these high-risk children. On the contrary, the strategies seemed to worsen the outcome, for unknown reasons. "We have concerns that these avoidances may enhance sensitization to foods in high-risk children," Dr. Appelt concluded. ... |
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Dagny wrote:
... The researchers concluded that partial food avoidance strategies in the third trimester and during breastfeeding were not effective in preventing sensitization to food among these high-risk children. On the contrary, the strategies seemed to worsen the outcome, for unknown reasons. Please note the words "partial...avoidance," which is very very different from complete avoidance. That said, I see absolutely no benefit in avoiding anything that doesn't bother your baby during bf, with the possible exception of peanuts. Phoebe |
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I am not pregnant, not even TTC yet (scheduled to start this project in
January 2005!). But are peanuts something that you are supposed to avoid during this time, to avoid giving your child allergies? Nuts are mostly such healthy things, very helpful in avoiding heart disease ...I'd hate to have a child with a peanut allergy. Where would this 5'11 woman be today without peanut butter? KD "Dagny" wrote in message link.net... Rant: When will we start learning not to listen to doctors and just live and parent like everything is normal? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472339?mpid=26753 ... The researchers concluded that partial food avoidance strategies in the third trimester and during breastfeeding were not effective in preventing sensitization to food among these high-risk children. On the contrary, the strategies seemed to worsen the outcome, for unknown reasons. "We have concerns that these avoidances may enhance sensitization to foods in high-risk children," Dr. Appelt concluded. ... |
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"Dagny" wrote in message link.net... Rant: When will we start learning not to listen to doctors and just live and parent like everything is normal? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472339?mpid=26753 ... The researchers concluded that partial food avoidance strategies in the third trimester and during breastfeeding were not effective in preventing sensitization to food among these high-risk children. On the contrary, the strategies seemed to worsen the outcome, for unknown reasons. "We have concerns that these avoidances may enhance sensitization to foods in high-risk children," Dr. Appelt concluded. ... I was told by my midwife to eat mixed nuts towards the end of pregnancy if I have the same lack of appetite that I had with dd. Right now I dont feel at risk for that right now though.. man I can not believe I am hungry again... grrr. Tori |
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"KD" wrote in message ... I am not pregnant, not even TTC yet (scheduled to start this project in January 2005!). But are peanuts something that you are supposed to avoid during this time, to avoid giving your child allergies? Nuts are mostly such healthy things, very helpful in avoiding heart disease ...I'd hate to have a child with a peanut allergy. Where would this 5'11 woman be today without peanut butter? KD I was told during my first pregnancy (1997-1998) to eat peanut butter for the protein. That child has no alleriges. I also ate it during my 2nd (1999) and 3rd (2001) pregnancies. Child #2 is allergic to red dyes in food and drinks. Have not been in the mood for it with this pregnancy but I would eat it if I was. Sophie #4 due 7/18/04 |
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Both my husband and I have life threatening nut allergies, so the idea
of me eating them in pregnancy or while nursing is academic. However, before we started solids with our oldest, we consulted with a very well respected pediatric allergist, whose advice was for anyone with a family history of severe allergy to anything, peanuts in particular should be avoided, and mom should keep them out of her diet in pregnancy and while nursing, and keep them out of the child's diet until age 3 bare minimum, and age 5 preferably. They do know that intact nut proteins can cross the placental barrier and also end up in breastmilk. Both hubbie and I had extremely severe food allergies as kids, and the nut thing has carried forward into our adult lives, since nut allergies tend not to be outgrown. It was a HUGE pain in the neck for our parents (never mind terrifying), and we had no desire to repeat the experience of worrying about our kids being hospitalized or worse by a peanut butter cookie. If anyone was going to inherit the tendency, it would be our three kids. I followed the allergists advice - I breastfed exclusively, I delayed the start of solids to 6 months, I was extremely careful and slow with introducing solids (one at a time, slow etc.), and we also had a list of things from the allergist to avoid for the first year, like eggs, strawberries, shellfish etc. We kept them away from nuts for the first several years. And hey, I do have allergic kids, which is no surprise - they get hayfever, they get rashes from perfumed soaps, they can't be near dogs, two of them are asthmatic. However, not a single, solitary food allergy. Zip, nada, none. I'd say my unscientific observation is that the allergist hit the ball out of the park with his advice. I honestly wonder if the advice when WE were babies was the cause of our multiple food allergies. We're of the generation where very, very early solids were pushed - I have the instruction sheets from the doctor given to both our mothers, and they make my hair stand on end (i.e. feeding a 2 month old eggs etc.). I think in susceptable kids, prudent avoidance is a good plan. Costs you nothing, and the potential risks way outway any minor inconvenience. If I hadn't done what I did, and a kid of mine had ended up with a serious food allergy, I'd have always wondered if I could have done something to prevent it. But even if one had ended up with a serious allergy, at least doing what I did, I could have told myself I did the best I could, and did everything I could based on the best information I could get. By the way, when you think about allergy suseptibility, don't think JUST food. You don't inherit specific allergies. You inherit the tendency to develop allegies (i.e. an immune system prone to mistakes)and the specifics is driven by what you are exposed to at vunerable windows in life. If you have anyone in your family with severe allergy to anything, from the dye in their watch strap to bee stings to the sesame seeds on a cracker, you have it in in your gene pool! Our pediatric allergist says that the vunerable window seems to be the first three years to five years or so - he says if you don't have food allergies by that point, its unlikely you are going to develop them later. I presume that has something to do with a maturing immune system. Mary G. (whose kids can eat anything they want, whoo, ha!) |
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I've often wondered about the logic to this. IMO, allergies are inherited
and genetic and if you're going to get them you will, if you won't you won't My mother ate peanuts through all her pregnancies and breastfed us all. None of us have food allergies. Two out of three suffered asthma, as did our parents, and one has a rare allergy to cold but that's it...I don't see how that can be blamed on nuts. It makes sense to delay commonly allergic foods until a child is older, especially where allergies run in the family, because a reaction could kill especially in a very young child, but I don't see the point of avoidance in pregnancy/breastfeeding. "Dagny" wrote in message link.net... Rant: When will we start learning not to listen to doctors and just live and parent like everything is normal? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472339?mpid=26753 ... The researchers concluded that partial food avoidance strategies in the third trimester and during breastfeeding were not effective in preventing sensitization to food among these high-risk children. On the contrary, the strategies seemed to worsen the outcome, for unknown reasons. "We have concerns that these avoidances may enhance sensitization to foods in high-risk children," Dr. Appelt concluded. ... |
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Amy wrote:
I've often wondered about the logic to this. IMO, allergies are inherited and genetic and if you're going to get them you will, if you won't you won't My mother ate peanuts through all her pregnancies and breastfed us all. None of us have food allergies. Two out of three suffered asthma, as did our parents, and one has a rare allergy to cold but that's it...I don't see how The tendency to atopic disease is inherited, but the manner in which that tendency is *expressed* (allergies, asthma, eczema, etc.), if at all, is partly determined by exposure. You take a child with a tendency to atopic disease and expose him or her to highly allergenic foods before the immune system is fully developed, and you may get food allergies where you might not have otherwise. Some would argue that exposure in small, controlled amounts may help protect against the development of allergies, but research is still very equivocal on this point. Anyway, the point is that it is *not* the case that you inherit a nut allergy and there's nothing you can do about it at all. You may be able to avoid it by delaying the introduction. The reason that there has been discussion of avoiding exposure during pregnancy and nursing is that there have been cases where babies have reacted to their very first exposure to peanuts. Since they know you *can't* react on your first exposure (you have to have been sensitized through a prior exposure), they theorized that the children might have been exposed during pregnancy or breastfeeding and subsequently found that nut proteins can pass intact over the placenta or through breastmilk. Best wishes, Ericka |
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Thanks for the info Ericka. I guess I feel that coming from a family with no
history of food allergies, and as a vegetarian, the benefits to me of eating nuts (in moderation) outweigh the potential risks. It's good to hear the reasons for it though, it doesn't make it seem quite so pointless passing on the peanutbutter. "Ericka Kammerer" wrote in message ... Amy wrote: I've often wondered about the logic to this. IMO, allergies are inherited and genetic and if you're going to get them you will, if you won't you won't My mother ate peanuts through all her pregnancies and breastfed us all. None of us have food allergies. Two out of three suffered asthma, as did our parents, and one has a rare allergy to cold but that's it...I don't see how The tendency to atopic disease is inherited, but the manner in which that tendency is *expressed* (allergies, asthma, eczema, etc.), if at all, is partly determined by exposure. You take a child with a tendency to atopic disease and expose him or her to highly allergenic foods before the immune system is fully developed, and you may get food allergies where you might not have otherwise. Some would argue that exposure in small, controlled amounts may help protect against the development of allergies, but research is still very equivocal on this point. Anyway, the point is that it is *not* the case that you inherit a nut allergy and there's nothing you can do about it at all. You may be able to avoid it by delaying the introduction. The reason that there has been discussion of avoiding exposure during pregnancy and nursing is that there have been cases where babies have reacted to their very first exposure to peanuts. Since they know you *can't* react on your first exposure (you have to have been sensitized through a prior exposure), they theorized that the children might have been exposed during pregnancy or breastfeeding and subsequently found that nut proteins can pass intact over the placenta or through breastmilk. Best wishes, Ericka |
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Amy wrote:
Thanks for the info Ericka. I guess I feel that coming from a family with no history of food allergies, and as a vegetarian, the benefits to me of eating nuts (in moderation) outweigh the potential risks. It's good to hear the reasons for it though, it doesn't make it seem quite so pointless passing on the peanutbutter. If you don't have a history of atopic disease on either side of the family (allergies, asthma, eczema, etc.), then I don't know of any group that is currently recommending that you avoid nuts or peanuts during pregnancy or breastfeeding. As far as I know, the groups that are recommending that only recommend it for those with a family history of atopic disease. If your child doesn't have the predisposition to atopic disease, the odds he or she will develop a peanut allergy no matter what you do are quite low. Best wishes, Ericka |
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