After receiving breast milk exclusively for almost six months, Dian began formula-fed by his mother. One hour after drinking milk formula, the tiny baby face looked ashen. In just a matter of minutes, the six-month-old baby was also spewing out all the fluid milk is consumed. After spewing the contents of his stomach, the baby is crying in his mother's arms.
In a state of panic, Dian immediately brought his parents to a nearby hospital in the area of Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta. Dian was diagnosed with cow's milk allergy. According to doctors who handle it, there is the possibility of allergy is derived from the lineage of his parents. Indeed, I suffer from allergies. "If you get cold air or dust, I was instantly cold, sometimes itchy," he said.
In addition to vomiting so drinking milk formula, arises almost reddish spots all over his body Dian.Ati, mother of Dian, and decided to stop giving formula milk to her child during the week. The instigation of doctors, he then gave hypoallergenic formula milk. It was not like a drink, perhaps because it does not feel. "The important thing is, my son is no longer vomiting and a red rash," he said.
When Dian the age of one year, Ati then replace regular milk with formula milk. Apparently her daughter was no longer showing symptoms of allergy. The doctor said, when it's one year should be tried with milk formula. Initially was feared also that even allergy recurrence. "After a try, it turns out my son had no allergy symptoms," said Ati happy.
Another story about Fabiayya Cut. Instead, he suffers from food allergies to cow's milk consumed his mother. When more than one month old, the red rash on the cheek. He also repeatedly diarrhea in a day. And so was born, she breastfed exclusively from the mother.
After the doctor, he was suffering from cow's milk allergy. Allergic talent that comes from both parents who suffer from asthma. Cause, during lactation, mothers consume cow's milk for nursing mothers and eat some foods that could potentially trigger allergies. "Now I abstain from eating fish, eggs and peanuts, milk also substituted soy milk," said Rifsia, mother of Cut Fabiayya.
Increase
The incidence of allergic diseases in children increases with changes in lifestyle of modern society, environmental pollution, and substances in food. "Allergies are immune reactions deviate from the normal and cause adverse symptoms of the body," said Dr. Zakiudin Munasir, Chairman of the Division of Allergy-Immunology Section of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia-Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, in a seminar last May, in Jakarta.
In the body there are five types of antibodies or immunoglobulins, ie immunoglobulin G, A, M, E, and D. Immunoglobulin E is an antibody that many play a role in allergic reactions. In the body of allergy sufferers, there are high levels of immunoglobulin E, particularly immunoglobulin E specific to certain substances trigger allergic reactions, such as dust, animal dander, pollen or certain foods, like eggs, milk, sea fish.
In the United States reported the incidence of allergy in preschool children 10 to 12 p ersen, and at school-age 8.5 to 12.2 percent. D epartemen Agriculture United States said, 15 percent of the total population of the country's population is allergic to certain foods. About 20 percent of children aged less than one year had an allergic reaction to food.
In Indonesia, the incidence of allergies in children Indonesia has not been widely studied. From research in Kelurahan Utan Kayu, Jakarta, was 25.5 percent of children suffer from allergies, including allergy symptoms in the nose and skin. From the results of clinical trials in 69 children with asthma in Poly Allergy-Immunology Section of Child Health, Faculty of medicine-RSCM, was 45.31 per cent were allergic to crab, 37.53 percent are allergic to tiny shrimp, and 26.56 percent are allergic to chocolate.
"Do not joke about allergies in children because the risk of development of the child," said Zakiudin Munasir. Symptoms are often seen are vomiting, diarrhea continues, sometimes accompanied by blood, such as atopic dermatitis, hives and itching, recurrent respiratory problems such as cough and asthma.
Most of the gastrointestinal tract because of first contact and marked swelling and itching at the tongue and lips until orofarings, pains and stomach cramps, vomiting to severe degree with bloody stools. When the food allergens away from the gastrointestinal tract, allergic symptoms in organs like the skin (atopic dermatitis, urticaria), nose (rhinitis), eye (conjunctivitis), respiratory (asthma), central nervous system (headache), or systemic symptoms fatal anaphylactic shock for example.
However, allergies are often difficult to diagnose because there is cross reactivity between foods. eg peanuts with peanut Ked Elai have the same epitope despite having a different protein. In addition, the presence of allergy to addictive substances or other materials contained in food such as spices and preservatives. To ensure an allergy, allergy testing can be done, said Zakiudin.
Is genetic
A person can suffer from allergies if one or both parents have a history of allergy. Possible allergic greater when a history of allergy is the mother or both parents. This indicates an allergy is genetic. "This type of allergy is not always the same with his parents," he said.
Allergic reactions can also be triggered by environmental factors ie allergens, infections, pollution, and excessive physical activity. In fetuses, infants, and children, allergy triggers are parents and people around, food, medicine, and environment. "Foods that can trigger allergies, especially cow's milk, fish, eggs, d's peanuts," said Zakiudin added.
The risk of developing allergies in children has also increased if the mother smoked during pregnancy and lactation, the diet by eating food allergens. Children are also at risk of developing allergies if not breastfed or breastfed within a short time. S here is currently a lot of mothers work so not able to breastfeed fully. Thus, infant formula and drink milk. In the gifted children are allergic, milk-based formulas are cow's milk may trigger allergies, he said.
Actually, allergic reactions can be prevented by avoiding allergy triggers that replace food sources of allergens in foods with similar nutritional value to prevent malnutrition. Generally, food allergies in children will disappear within a certain timeframe. Allergy risk will be reduced by exclusive breastfeeding for six months or more because milk contains complete nutrition, including probiotics and protein hypo allergenik, Zakiudin said.
For babies who have aged six months upwards can be fed breast milk substitutes and infant formula. Of course, given milk with cow milk formula that has been processed. Hypoallergenic milk is given to prevent allergies in babies who did have talent allergies. The non-allergenic formula milk given to babies who are allergic to cow's milk.
Allergies can also be prevented by avoiding cigarette smoke on pregnant and lactating mothers, he said. Treatment with drugs administered H1 and H2 antihistamines. As for babies with allergy immunotherapy is still no adequate studies to prove the results. With proper prevention and treatment, children with allergies can be an optimal growth and development.
