One of the best eczema treatments are contained in the food your baby should be fed. Many people are unaware of the protections that breastfeeding can provide their infant children. We will quickly discuss some of the ideas and facts concerning breast feeding and its relation to eczema in babies.
When you breastfeed your baby he is susceptible to less allergies including eczema than the baby who is not breastfed. This happens for a number of reasons. It is believed that food is the major cause of allergies in babies. What happens is that allergens promoting proteins pass through their intestine walls and enter the bloodstream, and affects them in a whole host of different ways. The child who is breastfed receives an enzyme directly from his mother that puts a protective barrier along the walls of his intestines so that the allergy causing proteins are unable to pass through.
When the child reaches the age of 9 months he should be producing enough immunoglobulins (the intestine protection barrier) on his own to prevent the allergy transfer. If you are not breastfeeding you are putting him at unnecessary risks for quite a while before he is able to fight for himself.
It is also a prevalent belief that the foods that are eaten sooner/earlier in life are the exact ones that we become allergic to. This is an important fact because in the place of breastfeeding people usually resort to using cow's milk, and cows milk is known to contain at least 20 common allergens that adversely affect eczema and other atopic illnesses.
It is also now a known that breastfed infants will have stronger immune systems earlier in life. Human breast milk has an a very important role to play in the development of the growing babies' immune system.
When a baby is less than three months old. His immune system is very weak, almost to the place of being ineffective. Between 3 and 6 months is the time when most eczema traits are recognized in children. It is during this time that he needs his mother to help him the most by setting a good foundation for a healthy eczema and allergy free life.
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