Comments on: Help for Common Food Allergies? My Ready, Set, Food! Review https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/ Simple Answers for Healthier Families Fri, 22 May 2020 15:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Devin https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/comment-page-1/#comment-413769 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:58:28 +0000 https://wellnessmama24.wpenginepowered.com/?p=422602#comment-413769 My pediatrician recommended Ready, Set, Food! for my daughter. I used it for her for 6 months and I was so happy to know that she is now allergy-free and in fact, peanut butter is one of her favorite foods! It’s so great that it’s organic and so easy to use. I highly recommend it to any parents with infants!

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By: Stephanie https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/comment-page-1/#comment-413715 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:17:16 +0000 https://wellnessmama24.wpenginepowered.com/?p=422602#comment-413715 In reply to Connie Gerbasi.

I am unsure about what to think about this. I have three kids all with food allergies. I have been told that their food allergies are genetic. I breastfed all of my kids. My first son had signs of allergies from infancy. He would sneeze and get hay fever looking eyes, all red and itchy, every time he nursed…from newborn. I was eating all of the major allergens and they seemed to affect him through my breastmilk. The first time he had a major reaction was when I first introduced solid food (really watery rice cereal mixed with formula.) I had been feeding him the rice cereal for about 2 weeks with no major symptoms, but one day I was not at home and had no expressed breastmilk to mix with the cereal so I mixed it with formula. He was just over four months old and the first spoonful touched his lips and he started screaming like it was burning him. He quick turned his head and it got on his cheek and then turned to big red blotches with white little hives on his cheek. He continued crying and trying to use his arm to wipe off his cheek and the red blotches and hives then spread to his arm.
It took until he was nine months old before I could get my pediatrician to refer us the the pediatric allergy specialist. After the visit, the did the prick tests on his back, we found out he was allergic to milk, eggs and peanuts. He is now 16 years old and still has anaphylactic results when accidentally exposed to milk products. (His throat and tongue itch & swell.)
When I was pregnant with my second child, I was encouraged to avoid those foods my son was allergic to until I was done breastfeeding. But instead of milk, eggs, and peanuts, my second son is allergic to beef, pork, and chicken! My daughter (our youngest) is allergic to beef, pork, milk, peanuts… I had decided not to avoid any foods while pregnant and breastfeeding with her.
All of my kids got allergy tested at young ages and not sure if early introduction to ANY specific food would have changed their allergies now! I now just manage their diets with healthy, organic, whole foods that don’t trigger their allergies.

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By: Katie Wells https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/comment-page-1/#comment-413692 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:31:32 +0000 https://wellnessmama24.wpenginepowered.com/?p=422602#comment-413692 In reply to Connie Gerbasi.

I would not personally give this before six months (I never pumped anyway so I couldn’t have) but would implement when introducing solid foods for the first time anyway. In the past, parents would not have avoided these foods at all so babies would have had regular early exposure.

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By: Anna https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/comment-page-1/#comment-413686 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:19:02 +0000 https://wellnessmama24.wpenginepowered.com/?p=422602#comment-413686 I definitely think food allergies have increased significantly in recent years. I can remember when I was a kid, kids just didn’t have them or none of the kids I knew did. I work at a large local elementary school and every hallway has at least 2-3 peanut/nut free signs by classroom doors. I’ve been in education for 20 yrs and I don’t think food allergies were really prevelant even 10+ yrs ago as they are now.
I think this early method is a great way to kick start a baby’s immune system to view the top 8 allergens as good and not deadly.

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By: Connie Gerbasi https://wellnessmama.com/reviews/ready-set-food/comment-page-1/#comment-413681 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:29:33 +0000 https://wellnessmama24.wpenginepowered.com/?p=422602#comment-413681 This is so totally UN-natural …. We can go back historically and know how babies have been fed….Exclusive breast-feeding until at least six months of age. If there’s any truth to giving baby small amounts of common allergens … This is bound to happen naturally when mothers let baby taste food. How much better to give them tiny taste of real organic raw cow milk rather than some dehydrated powder. Of the hundreds of people I’ve known that breast-fed babies … really and truly breast-fed I don’t know very many who have allergies. Most of the allergies I know of have come from environmental factors. Some of these are controllable and some of them aren’t ….

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