Diet with atopic dermatitis in children: menu - find out the detailed menu

Treatment of atopic dermatitis in children is a long and complex task. The disease is allergic in nature, so the basis of therapy is a therapeutic diet. If the baby is on breastfeeding, it is necessary to observe food restrictions to mom, since it is in the first 2-3 years that the products are the main allergens provoking increased production of histamine.

Features of the infant period

If the mother did not follow a hypoallergenic diet during pregnancy, The risk of developing atopic dermatitis in a newborn is approximately 25-30%.The probability increases if one of the blood relatives of the child has a predisposition to the disease. To prevent the baby from experiencing atopic dermatitis, the woman should limit the consumption of the following products as much as possible:

• fruits and vegetables grown in foreign countries;
• canned food and marinades with the addition of vinegar;
• fatty sauces( mayonnaise, creamy, sour cream sauce);
• sauces of industrial production;
• snacks( crunches, chips);
• carbonated lemonades and packaged juices.

Chicken and eggs are considered products with increased allergenic properties, so it is worth limiting their use to 1-2 times a week. Carefully you need to enter in the menu oranges, tangerines and other citrus fruits, as well as strawberries and chocolate. It is not necessary to completely reject them, of course, but it is necessary to observe moderation in food.

If, despite all the efforts of the mother, the baby was born with this diagnosis, you should not despair. At the majority of children all displays of an atopic dermatitis pass or take place up to three-year age under condition of observance of a hypoallergenic diet and recommendations of the attending physician.

Mother's milk or mixture?

Until recently, it was believed that children with atopic dermatitis is better to introduce into the diet an artificial milk mixture, because food substances falling into the mother's milk from foods that a woman eats can strengthen the symptoms of pathology. Now it is proved that if a woman does not eat foods with increased allergenic properties, preference should be given to breastfeeding. It contains all the necessary vitamins and minerals for the full development of crumbs, as well as antibodies that reduce the risk of allergic reactions.

If the child is transferred to artificial feeding for medical reasons, it is necessary to select the adapted low allergenic mixture together with the pediatrician.

Recommendations for lure

Feeding in children prone to atopic dermatitis should be administered no earlier than 6 months. At this age, the digestive tract of the baby is already mature enough, digestive enzymes are produced in sufficient quantities, so the probability of intolerance to any products is significantly reduced.

To introduce new products into the diet, you need to gradually, starting with a small spoon. Some mothers violate this recommendation when they see that the crumbs with an appetite eat the offered puree or porridge, and at once feed half a cup or half a plate. This should not be done in any case.

Important! After introducing any new product into the diet of an allergy-prone child, you need to wait 2-3 days to track possible reactions, and only after that you can increase the amount of the dish( you need to do this gradually).The introduction of a single product should take at least 7-10 days.

Begin to familiarize the crumbs with new flavors with hypoallergenic vegetables and fruits: zucchini, apples, pears, potatoes, cauliflower. The last in the diet of the baby are introduced carrots, pumpkin, prunes, bananas, as well as other vegetables and fruits, having a red or yellow color.

Nutrition of children with atopic dermatitis: 3 rules

Children who have already switched to an adult table, as well as children over three years of age, should be fed in accordance with the recommendations of specialists. Doctors distinguish three basic rules that must be observed at any age, so there are no fundamental differences in the nutrition of the one-year-old child and adolescent.

Rule 1: no sugar!

Remove from the baby's diet all sweet - perhaps the most difficult task for the mother. Children very quickly get used to sweet taste and prefer it, which is not surprising. To facilitate the process of weaning from the sweet, it is better not to introduce the child to the products containing sugar. As a dessert, you can offer the child a little dried fruit( 1-2 pieces), unsweetened puddings. To replace sugar with honey at atopic dermatitis is not necessary, as honey and products of beekeeping are one of the main food allergens. Sometimes it is allowed to include in the diet a small amount of sweets on fructose, but they should not be abused.

must be ruled out. Rule 2: keep a diary

Maintaining a diary will help your mother determine which product triggered an allergic reaction. In a small notebook or notebook you need to record everything that the child ate and drank a day. After a few days, the picture becomes more obvious, and it will be much easier to detect the allergen.

Rule 3: A sensible approach to compiling a menu

Very often, parents, when they hear that their child has atopic dermatitis, go to the extreme and introduce severe food restrictions, depriving the growing body of the necessary nutrients and nutrients. To observe a diet with atopic manifestations is necessary, but it must be reasonable. Limitation of products such as meat, milk and sour milk products, fruits and vegetables, is unacceptable in childhood.

Important! Make a menu for a child who has atopic dermatitis or who is addicted to the disease, it is necessary in conjunction with the attending physician. The specialist will study the history of the disease and help determine what balance of vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and other elements is needed for a specific child.

What can I eat?

The basis of the diet of a child suffering from food allergies, should be meat low-fat broths, vegetables and cereals. From meat preference should be given to beef - it contains less fat compared to pork. If you can get a mutton of good quality, be sure to give it to the baby, but in limited quantities. The use of pork is allowed no more than once a week in boiled or stewed.

Tip! It is better for children with allergies to give meat from private farms. In large cities, there are shops with farm products, where you can buy steamed beef, veal and other types of meat. Before buying it is necessary to check all documents and evidence confirming the quality of the products.

From vegetables it is best to use zucchini, color and Brussels sprouts, carrots and pumpkin. The latter, despite the orange color, refer to products with reduced allergenic properties, so they can be used to prepare curative and preventive foods.

Very useful for children with dermatitis without gluten. From them you can cook porridge or add them to meat and vegetable broth.

What foods can I eat with atopic dermatitis in children?

Product group	What you can eat
Fruit	Baked apples and pears( mostly green varieties), soaked in water prunes, fresh plums
Dried fruits	Dried apples
Meat	Beef, lamb( parts without fat), rabbit, horse meat
Oils	Extra virgin olive oil and corn oil
Drinks	Tea( softly brewed), rose hip broth
Vegetables and greens	All except red vegetables( radish, tomatoes, red bell pepper)
Fat	Butter fat82.5% of natural cow milk
Groats	Rice brown, buckwheat, corn( all pre-soaked in water)
Berries	All berries are white( white currant and cherry, gooseberry)
Milk products	Sour cream, kefir, fermented baked milk, cheeses without adding spices and garlic

Important! All dairy products for the nutrition of children with dermatitis should be one-day. Milk and kefir, from the production date of which passed more than 48 hours, are not suitable for a therapeutic diet.

What is not allowed?

It is necessary to exclude from the diet of the child all products that increase the likelihood of an allergic reaction. Chicken meat can be given to a child only if the chicken was grown on the subsidiary farm without the use of antibiotics and growth hormones and was not treated with drugs and chlorine compounds. Chicken meat, which is sold in stores, you need to completely remove from the menu.

from the diet. The same applies to eggs .Occasionally( once in 10-14 days), you can give the child quail eggs, carefully monitoring the child's reaction.

All confectionery , which are sold in stores, are also prohibited. Basically, this is due to the use of cheap margarine, which is not suitable even for feeding children. If there is a desire to pamper the child with something delicious, you can bake a homemade cake or pie on fructose and natural butter. As a filling, you can use green apples. Such a treat will not cause harm to health and can diversify the diet of a sick baby.

It is not necessary to offer the baby and nuts, and dried fruits and honey .These products belong to the group of increased allergenicity and most often cause exacerbations in children with atopic dermatitis.

From the baby's diet, is also necessary to exclude the following products from :

• chocolate and cocoa based products;
• drinks with caffeine;
• fatty sauces( mayonnaise);
• spices and spices( cumin, cinnamon, vanillin, pepper);
• cream;
• all kinds of mushrooms;
• all kinds of snacks;
• chewing gum and soda.

Important! All kinds of fish are particularly toxic products because of the high probability of accumulation of salts of metals( primarily mercury) under the gills and fins. For this reason, children should not be given fish with food allergies. This applies to fish preserves, as well as caviar.

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Sample menu for a day for a baby

If the baby is already eating a lure, it is important to make the right menu and combine the products so that they do not cause irritation and negative reactions. Below is an approximate daily diet for a child with atopic dermatitis between the ages of six months and 12 months.

Feeding time( approximate)	What to give?	Quantity( approximately, take into account the child's age)
6.00	Milk mixture or breast milk	150-200 ml
10.00	Non-dairy hypoallergenic cereal, olive oil, pear puree	150 g 2.5 g 20 g
14.00	Mashed potatoes with potatoes and a small amount of vegetable oil, beef puree	150 g 30 g
18.00	Vegetable puree with the addition of cereals( cauliflower and buckwheat), puree of horse meat, puree from apple or prune	170 g 30g 20-50 g
22.00	Milk mixture or breast milk	200 ml

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Sample menu for a child over 1 year old

These options for children's diets are suitable for children and adolescents. They can be adjusted, but the principle should remain the same: the basis of the diet is only hypoallergenic foods and foods.

Food	Option 1	Option 2	Option 3	Option 4
Breakfast	Porridge from buckwheat on the water, slice of cheese( "Russian" or "Poshekhonsky"), tea, bread with a thin layer of butter	Mashed potatoes withoil, cabbage and carrot salad, slice of cheese, tea	Porridge of oatmeal on water, tea, sandwich with butter and cheese	Rice pudding, cottage cheese, tea, bread with butter
Lunch	Potato cream soup with sour cream and greens, rice with a steam beef from a beef, compote	Shchi, macaroniwith beef meatballs with lamb meat, compote	Soup with shallow vermicelli, stewed cabbage with meat ribs, compote	Soup with vegetables and pearl barley, cabbage casserole with minced meat, compote
Snack	Apples and kefir	Pear, ryazhenka	Prunes, kefir	Baked apple, kefir
Dinner	Boiled potatoes with steam cutlet, slice of black bread, tea	Stuffed cabbage and dill stuffed with meat and rice	Boiled potatoes with cabbage and dill, meat cutlet, tea	Macaones with meatballs and butter, tea

number of dishes varies depending on the age of the child. One serving is:

• from 1 to 3 years - 180-200 g dishes and 180 ml of the drink;
• from 3 to 7 years - 200-220 g dishes and 200 ml of the drink;
• from 7 to 15 years - 220-230 g of dish and 200 ml of drink.

Before going to bed, it is recommended to give the child a glass of fresh yogurt.

Diet in atopic dermatitis gives a much greater effect than the use of various ointments, creams and other drugs. To the body of the child received enough essential substances, it is better to get the advice of a specialist in the preparation of a curative menu. It will be great if the baby is supported by the rest of the family: so it will be easier for the child to survive the rejection of favorite dishes and to cope faster with the disease.