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To learn more about food allergies. Due to changes in lifestyle, children’s food marketed, has a greater importance in the diet of children, and should therefore meet strict standards of quality and safety. .

The foods on the market are practical and varied, so are a good option to supplement the meals prepared at home. Baby foods that are marketed are made with fresh fruits, vegetables and meat, no preservatives are, and must meet high standards. One aspect to consider in the first year of life is the amount of iron supplied in the diet, and this during childhood, routinely monitors the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia.

The use of preparations or cereals fortified with iron and consumption of iron-rich foods such as meat shredded, can help prevent this problem.

It must pay special attention to the sterilization of utensils used to feed the child, and thus reduce the risk of contamination, because babies fed on formula are not as immune protection that breast-fed infants. When to start with solid foods? The addition of complementary solid food is usually a gradual process lasting several weeks or months and that should start around 6 months of age.

The exact time depends on the baby and mother, and reflects the fact that although breast milk is sufficient during the early months when the child grows and does not provide by itself all the proper nutrients. The addition of complementary foods at around 6 months is important for the child develops the ability to chew and talk. You can gradually increase the quality, quantity and variety of solid foods, at a rate normally imposed on children.

Cereals are generally the first foods that are incorporated into an infant’s diet (mixed with breast milk or preparations), and then introduces the pureed vegetables and fruits, and meat. . If breast-feeding during the first 4 to 6 months of life, less likely to develop allergies. Foods that are more likely to cause allergic reactions in sensitive children, such as egg whites and fish are generally taken after 12 months.

Our responsibility as parents is to give our babies all the nutrients they need to grow healthy and strong. So we give you these tips:

* The consistency of baby’s first foods should be soft, due to lack of teeth and an immature gut agrees not highly processed.

* The more simple the food and have fewer colors, the baby will accept it better. Studies show that too many colors and consistencies prevent it wants to babies.

* Avoid adding salt, sugar or spices, as the babies are in the formative stage of taste.

* When is the first time you give your child a food, try giving it all day on small proven and see how it behaves, what color were his stool, if it is not irritable, and that these signs can lead us to a correct tolerance to certain foods.

* When you start weaning, you should switch foods with milk, that is, if requested early in breast milk or formula, 2-hour begins with a single vegetable gruel, and every 2 hours alternating with milk and porridge.

* Avoid repeated many times a day the same food, unless it is the first time you give it. Do not repeat allows you get to know more flavors and is nurtured, and that giving different foods, you are ensuring good nutrition.

* Try new food range that you give your son, your tolerance increases, because each contains different nutrients.