Can You Prevent Food Allergies In Your Children?
If you have one child with food allergies, will your other children have them too? Is there a way to prevent children from having food allergies? The answer is: no, there is no definite way to prevent food allergies in children, but you can lessen your odds.
Right now about 5% of kids have food allergies in the United States. If a parent has food allergies themselves, then a child’s chance of having them is about 25%. Breastfeeding for at least the first four months of using a hydrolyzed formula can reduce the risk of a child having food allergies and asthma.
Do you have food allergies that you are concerned about passing on to your children? Does your child(ren) have food allergies?
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