we work in the food industry and find that 90% of our customers with children refuse anything with nuts in,while less than 1% of the poulation has a nut from a medical journal
"In surveys conducted in the UK, many people reported they suffer from some form of food allergy. In reality, the actual percentage of true food allergic individuals is much lower than people perceive - perhaps only 2% of the population. The main foods which are associated with food allergy are milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat and soya."
we even have a friend who insists her 18 month old girl has a milk allergy, but she eats lots of our home made ice cream with no problem, duh, its 80%cows milk and cream, whats going on with poeple?
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Allergies are a fady thing.
On a personal level I get indigestion and bloated stomaches when I eat certain preservatives. My girlfriend has had nasty reactions to tomatoes.
Are they allegies? I don't know, probably sensetivies.
Being cynical I don't fully trust medical organisations and many nwestern doctors have very narrow views of health. So I take these statistics with a pinch of salt
On a personal level I get indigestion and bloated stomaches when I eat certain preservatives. My girlfriend has had nasty reactions to tomatoes.
Are they allegies? I don't know, probably sensetivies.
Being cynical I don't fully trust medical organisations and many nwestern doctors have very narrow views of health. So I take these statistics with a pinch of salt
One of our children has multiple allergies including eggs and nuts which are tested for annually. Although thankfully the reactions have not been very severe to date we have to be very careful and when there is a reaction it is very frightening indeed! I can understand therefore why parents of young children in particular might be almost paranoid about certain types of food even if they have not had their child's condition verified medically. From what I've learned, some allergies and food intolerances can be extraordinarily difficult to a)detect, b)quantify c)treat so I can fully understand why any parent who feels their child isn't 'well' might believe an allergy or intolerance could be responsible and would exclude certain things on the basis that it is better to be safe than sorry.
I have this theory that the rise in food intolerances and especially stomach illnesses are due more to the processed foods we eat these days than anything else.
Long before processed food and ready meals were so widely used, we ate home cooked, wholesome food and were, on the whole, a lot healthier. The busy lives we all lead now don't allow us the time to spend in the kitchen cooking and food manufacturers marketing encourage us to eat more of the more convenient meals available.
Nut allergies, on the other hand, can have very serious consequences. In more extreme cases, it can bring on anaphylactic shock which can be fatal. I have a friend who suffers with this and she has to carry a dose of adrenaline with her at all times. It has saved her life a couple of times.
Scary :shock:
Long before processed food and ready meals were so widely used, we ate home cooked, wholesome food and were, on the whole, a lot healthier. The busy lives we all lead now don't allow us the time to spend in the kitchen cooking and food manufacturers marketing encourage us to eat more of the more convenient meals available.
Nut allergies, on the other hand, can have very serious consequences. In more extreme cases, it can bring on anaphylactic shock which can be fatal. I have a friend who suffers with this and she has to carry a dose of adrenaline with her at all times. It has saved her life a couple of times.
Scary :shock:
My youngest daughter had quite a severe allergic reation recently. The doctor at the hospital said she must be allergic to nuts, without ordering any sort of tests. I think that they are very quick to blame nuts when a young child has these type of allergic reations. Personally I dont think she is but have kept her away from them anyway just in case.
Louise xx
Louise xx
My son had an allergic reaction to cashews just 2 days before xmas and ended up in hospital overnight 
Thanks god i was being greedy and opened the xmas nuts early 
They said it may just be cashews but you can develop an allergy at anytime of life, he's 11, and so to avoid all nuts from now on.
Watching how quickly his mouth swelled and the breathing difficulties he suffered scared the life out of me.
I can really understand why people dont take the chance with little ones.
Ive even banned my life long favourite, peanut butter from my own cupboards just incase he eats some by accident.
Thanks god i was being greedy and opened the xmas nuts early They said it may just be cashews but you can develop an allergy at anytime of life, he's 11, and so to avoid all nuts from now on.
Watching how quickly his mouth swelled and the breathing difficulties he suffered scared the life out of me.
I can really understand why people dont take the chance with little ones.
Ive even banned my life long favourite, peanut butter from my own cupboards just incase he eats some by accident.
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we work in the food industry and find that 90% of our customers with children refuse anything with nuts in,while less than 1% of the poulation has a nut from a medical journal
"In surveys conducted in the UK, many people reported they suffer from some form of food allergy. In reality, the actual percentage of true food allergic individuals is much lower than people perceive - perhaps only 2% of the population. The main foods which are associated with food allergy are milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat and soya."
we even have a friend who insists her 18 month old girl has a milk allergy, but she eats lots of our home made ice cream with no problem, duh, its 80%cows milk and cream, whats going on with poeple?
Then the little girl certainly doesnt have a milk or dairy allergy.
My son who was born 14 weeks premature has a severe allergy to all dairy products. Its making weaning him a right pain as many of the fats in a baby's diet are usually gained from dairy products. I find myself adding oils to just about everything i prepare as otherwise he loses weight.
His allergy wasnt discovered until i found a time when i was unable to breastfeed. Up until then i had been expressing milk for him ( forvarious reasons along with his prematurity) and had insisted he did not get any cows milk or fortifyers due to the increased risk of NEC in a preemie ( i could go on about NEC and preemies and breastmilk but then i digress). I had to give him formular milk for 48 hours until i was able to express again. Ever since that day (which sensetised his body and produced the allergen) he has reacted to every form of milk product - even indirectly through my milk.
After months of struggling i made the decision to stop breastfeeding and to switch to a non-dairy prescription formula. Which is great, but now we are weaning its becoming difficult. He sees a dietician and has had all the allergy tests which so a severe reaction to milk. We have been advised to steer clear of other potential common food allergens until he is 2yrs old, as one allergen often follows another.
However his case is exceptional. I have met other mothers who claim their children to have peanut allergies, but seen them at a birthday party a week later tucking into peanut butter sarnies without problems! Same thing often goes for milk/shellfish etc etc etc.
So is there a fashion out there amongst parents/people where having a food allergy is seen as something cool? i sincerely hope not because it undermines the people that really do suffer these problems and makes us parents seem like were just following the crowd!
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My son had an allergic reaction to cashews just 2 days before xmas and ended up in hospital overnight
They said it may just be cashews but you can develop an allergy at anytime of life, he's 11, and so to avoid all nuts from now on.
Watching how quickly his mouth swelled and the breathing difficulties he suffered scared the life out of me.
I can really understand why people dont take the chance with little ones.
Ive even banned my life long favourite, peanut butter from my own cupboards just incase he eats some by accident.
I didn't allow my daughter nuts or "traces of nut" products untill she was over 5. although, I ate tonnes of peanut butter when i was pregnant and was advised that because of that, she was unlikey to be intolerant or allergic to nuts.
Last year, she had 2 or 3 cashew nuts and within minutes developed a temperature and sore itchy rash all over her face and body. I immeditaely gave her puriton - or summat similiar - and she was fine.
She only really likes hazelnuts and eats them fairly regularly.
I've haven't seen the doctor 'cos they can't tell me what i don't already know.
I'm inclined to think that a lot of these allergies are just fashionable. Like dyslexia - everyone seems to have it these days. unless they're actually diagnosed, I'm tempted to believe they're too lazy to learn how to spell. (cue angry posts from bad spellers).
I also think a lot of allergies are down to our over sanitized environment. Plus, we don't have the anti-bodies to fight infection. i wonder what the relation is between formula fed babies and milk intolerance is too.
I think too much. :lol:
There's a big difference between a food allergy and a food intolerance.
I've recently discovered I'm intolerant to a few foods, wheat, yeast, sugar. I'm not allergic by any means by geeze I know when I've eaten the wrong thing!
My friend's son has a dairy intolerance. He drinks loads of milk but then suffers with sinus problems, bowel problems, cramps, tantrums etc.
If someone says there child is allergic then they may mean intolerant but I'd still never give the child than food personally.
Cx
I've recently discovered I'm intolerant to a few foods, wheat, yeast, sugar. I'm not allergic by any means by geeze I know when I've eaten the wrong thing!
My friend's son has a dairy intolerance. He drinks loads of milk but then suffers with sinus problems, bowel problems, cramps, tantrums etc.
If someone says there child is allergic then they may mean intolerant but I'd still never give the child than food personally.
Cx
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There's a big difference between a food allergy and a food intolerance.
I've recently discovered I'm intolerant to a few foods, wheat, yeast, sugar. I'm not allergic by any means by geeze I know when I've eaten the wrong thing!
My friend's son has a dairy intolerance. He drinks loads of milk but then suffers with sinus problems, bowel problems, cramps, tantrums etc.
If someone says there child is allergic then they may mean intolerant but I'd still never give the child than food personally.
Cx
This is very true! Many many people are mistaken on what is an allergy or an intolrance and for things like dairy they assume they are one and the same thing!
Sex God
There is a huge difference between allergies and intolerances and varying degrees within that.
Like Sassy I think we are developing unheathier children these days with bad diet, additives, preservatives, processed crap that is packaged as food
more pollution and a less all round healthier lifestyle.
The WHO advises breastfeeding for 6 months preferably the first year. There is evidence that breastfed babies are less likely to develop intolerances or allergies if no formula milk is introduced in this time (or as late as possible in that first year). This is partcularly important for babies with a family history of allergies/hayfever/asthma.
Weaning them (after 16 weeks) in a specific order and introducing foods less likely to provoke problems e.g. rice, quinoa, oats, millet etc with no sugars, salts and absolutely nothing processed. Cow's milk and gluten (wheat products) are the worst offenders early on.
Yes this is damn hard work (been there done that - twice) especially if your child does have reactions you have found before, but personally it makes complete and utter sense to me.
pink x
Like Sassy I think we are developing unheathier children these days with bad diet, additives, preservatives, processed crap that is packaged as food
more pollution and a less all round healthier lifestyle.The WHO advises breastfeeding for 6 months preferably the first year. There is evidence that breastfed babies are less likely to develop intolerances or allergies if no formula milk is introduced in this time (or as late as possible in that first year). This is partcularly important for babies with a family history of allergies/hayfever/asthma.
Weaning them (after 16 weeks) in a specific order and introducing foods less likely to provoke problems e.g. rice, quinoa, oats, millet etc with no sugars, salts and absolutely nothing processed. Cow's milk and gluten (wheat products) are the worst offenders early on.
Yes this is damn hard work (been there done that - twice) especially if your child does have reactions you have found before, but personally it makes complete and utter sense to me.
pink x
Are their more additives in food now? Or are we just more aware of them?
I remember as a child (of the 60s) having an orange fizzy drink that made my skin tingle and itch.
WTF did it have in it?
All kids sweets then were strange vibrant colours.
Clothes were synthetic...nylon jim-jams!!!
Honestly, I think their is les crap in our food today.
I remember as a child (of the 60s) having an orange fizzy drink that made my skin tingle and itch.
WTF did it have in it?
All kids sweets then were strange vibrant colours.
Clothes were synthetic...nylon jim-jams!!!
Honestly, I think their is les crap in our food today.
Was going to reply yesturday but did not have my posting boots on, can't think why
Its not just food products that cause this IMO, we do have more processed junk, and GM food scares the s**t out of me.
Look at all the new cleaning chemicals, air freshners (whats wrong with opening a window ffs) and stuff like that. We seem to have become an ultra clean society and scary adverts on tv telling us we MUST use this or we have a million bacteria in our homes.
We always have had this bacteria in our homes, another thread mentioned about eating dirty and stuff like that. We are still here, thats what the immune systems is all about at an early age it developes antibodies to fight this stuff off, over time we build up our defenses. A lot of this stuff these days gets rid of any chance of building that up, yes there will always be exceptions to the rule and that is very unfortunate for the ones it happens to.
My mother had a lot of allergies and intolernces when living here, but when she moved to Spain they dissapered all bar one which is probable a throw back to time in the uk and her age.
I'm not saying people have dirty or to cleaner homes, but does that make sense ?
Its not just food products that cause this IMO, we do have more processed junk, and GM food scares the s**t out of me.
Look at all the new cleaning chemicals, air freshners (whats wrong with opening a window ffs) and stuff like that. We seem to have become an ultra clean society and scary adverts on tv telling us we MUST use this or we have a million bacteria in our homes.
We always have had this bacteria in our homes, another thread mentioned about eating dirty and stuff like that. We are still here, thats what the immune systems is all about at an early age it developes antibodies to fight this stuff off, over time we build up our defenses. A lot of this stuff these days gets rid of any chance of building that up, yes there will always be exceptions to the rule and that is very unfortunate for the ones it happens to.
My mother had a lot of allergies and intolernces when living here, but when she moved to Spain they dissapered all bar one which is probable a throw back to time in the uk and her age.
I'm not saying people have dirty or to cleaner homes, but does that make sense ?
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Was going to reply yesturday but did not have my posting boots on, can't think why
Its not just food products that cause this IMO, we do have more processed junk, and GM food scares the s**t out of me.
Look at all the new cleaning chemicals, air freshners (whats wrong with opening a window ffs) and stuff like that. We seem to have become an ultra clean society and scary adverts on tv telling us we MUST use this or we have a million bacteria in our homes.
We always have had this bacteria in our homes, another thread mentioned about eating dirty and stuff like that. We are still here, thats what the immune systems is all about at an early age it developes antibodies to fight this stuff off, over time we build up our defenses. A lot of this stuff these days gets rid of any chance of building that up, yes there will always be exceptions to the rule and that is very unfortunate for the ones it happens to.
My mother had a lot of allergies and intolernces when living here, but when she moved to Spain they dissapered all bar one which is probable a throw back to time in the uk and her age.
I'm not saying people have dirty or to cleaner homes, but does that make sense ?
:thumbup:
There are places which NEED to be spotlessly clean ( but which sometimes aren't
ie hospitals ) but I do believe we live in such a sterile world that we're afraid that a little dirt will kill us all off. Hands up all those whose Granny/Mum said 'a little dirt won't harm you' and they're right
I have quite a unique allergy, among all the more normal ones I have , and I was terrified that my kids would be like me too. But so far they are fine.
I think that kids who are exposed to "clean" dirt and who play with their pets etc are far healthier in the long run. I obviously know the difference between "clean" dirt and germs which could be dangerous to them like touching raw meat and not washing their hands etc.
I also didn't give my kids anything with nuts in them until they were at least 5 years old, just because I know how bad a reaction that one can be.
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, and I was terrified that my kids would be like me too. But so far they are fine.I think that kids who are exposed to "clean" dirt and who play with their pets etc are far healthier in the long run. I obviously know the difference between "clean" dirt and germs which could be dangerous to them like touching raw meat and not washing their hands etc.
I also didn't give my kids anything with nuts in them until they were at least 5 years old, just because I know how bad a reaction that one can be.
Fee
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Must admit, my kids aren't/were never molly-coddled!
I've got good kids in that they will eat what's put in front of them, adore fruit and eat virtually all veg. We don't have central heating (and never have) and aren't scared of getting dirty.
They are rarely ill .. once with chicken pox (both together) and a few weeks back when that stomach flu swept the country!
Living simply and on good food .. you can't go far wrong!
I've got good kids in that they will eat what's put in front of them, adore fruit and eat virtually all veg. We don't have central heating (and never have) and aren't scared of getting dirty.
They are rarely ill .. once with chicken pox (both together) and a few weeks back when that stomach flu swept the country!
Living simply and on good food .. you can't go far wrong!
