ALLERGY BABYCAREHOW TO WEAN: TESTING FOODS

Give the chosen food as the first meal of the day after a milk feed. A ‘food’ in this context mean an individual food, given as food or drink, without any flavouring, salt, pepper, oil, fat, sweetening, sugar, sauce, gravy or anything else. Water can be used for cooking. So you cannot usually give processed baby foods (dry or in jars) or juice. You have to make your own foods. If you give potato, for example, you give nothing but plain potato, boiled, baked or mashed with water – without frying or roasting fat, butter, margarine or milk. A fruit given as a juice is also an individual food, so only give water to drink. For advice on how to serve some foods.

If the baby shows no sign of any adverse reaction after the first meal, offer the food again at the next meal of the day, and again a third or fourth time if the baby shows interest. If your baby is hungry or seems to enjoy it, give as much as he or she wants, or as much as you think sensible.

If your baby is on an established diet and will not weather eating just one food for the rest of the day, then give him or her their usual food for the rest of the day, omitting any foods that you propose to test in the next three days, and omitting any processed baby foods (dry or in jars). In particular, leave out the most common allergens -cow’s milk and products, wheat, eggs, yeast, nuts, pulses, citrus fruits.

Note down any changes that you observe in your baby during the day, the following night or next day. Babies are more likely than adults to react fast to a food and to show symptoms, signs of discomfort or being unsettled or unwell, within a few hours of eating or drinking a food, although they can be wakeful the night after; eczema, for instance, sometimes develops the next day or in the days after eating a problem food.

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