Best Baby Foods: Surprising
Baby Solid Food Guide for Allergies 

Best baby foods for avoiding allergies when starting baby on solid foods?

• Surprise, but when you start feeding baby solid foods, the only food that pediatricians now warn against giving your baby after 6 months, is honey! And that is not because of allergies, but botulism.

With the immature digestion of a baby less than one year old, the botulism bacteria could cause problems, if present, and this is possible in honey, though not overly common.

• When starting baby on solid foods, you no longer need to delay foods known to cause allergies, even a peanut butter allergy, a baby soy allergy, strawberry, gluten or a shrimp allergy.

Here’s why:

Because delaying the foods that can cause allergies, has NOT been shown to prevent allergies.  

Here’s what research has found, that can help you find best first foods for baby:

Best Baby Foods: Allergies and Feeding Baby Solid Food Guide - Surprises

Experts are now recommending to introduce all foods except honey, by the age of 6 months. This includes giving babies gluten, eggs and nuts!

You already know that by breast feeding for the first six months, you set your baby up for a healthier start.  Scientists have found that formula feeding increases, among other things, the risk of obesity in later childhood.

One of the reasons for this is that formula fed babies have more inflammation causing gut bacteria, which can cause problems later on. Gut bacteria certainly play a part in adult obesity.

But if you are introducing solid foods only by six months, as the guidelines suggest, you don’t need to worry about causing allergies by giving gluten, nuts, eggs and wheat too early.

But when gluten foods were introduced at 6 months, scientists found no greater risk for babies to develop celiac disease or for Type 1 diabetes.

Yes, if babies are given foods with gluten BEFORE the age of 3 months they do have a much higher risk of getting Type 1 diabetes, say researchers.

Starting Baby on Solid Foods: All Foods and Nuts!

Avoiding any foods is no longer being recommended after a baby is 6 months. There has been a turn-around in thinking – so that exposure is now considered to actually be better than avoiding.

In fact, the experts are now saying that introducing allergenic foods early can indeed lower your baby’s chance of developing allergies later on!

• So what about gluten, a peanut butter allergy, a baby soy allergy, strawberries and shrimp?

Simply watch for allergy symptoms if you have reason to worry.

Best Baby Foods: Pro-Biotics & Starting Baby on Solid Foods

Instead of AVOIDING certain foods, scientists are now showing us to instead, have a diversity of friendly gut bacteria for protection.  

• Rather than keeping everything clean and antiseptic, it is now considered important to let kids play in the dirt and be exposed to a LARGE VARIETY of good bacteria!

If your baby had a natural vaginal birth and is being breast fed, it is getting the best start with exposure to friendly bacteria. If not, you may need to add pro-biotics:

After a C-section birth, formula feeding or even with a genetic risk of Type 1 diabetes, it would be best to focus on pro-biotic supplements and adding pro-biotic foods.

Giving babies pro-biotics has certainly been found to lessen the risk of Type 1 diabetes in those with genetic risks.  

• Exposing babies and children to healthy friendly gut bacteria is much more important than keeping them away from allergy causing foods, say the experts!

Even peanut allergies – the dreaded peanut butter allergy – is on its way to being solved.

Scientists have found a probiotic bacterium called Lactobacillus rhamnosus that is helping to cure peanut allergies.  

With the help of this pro-biotic scientists were able to de-sensitize kids, meaning they no longer reacted to peanut exposure for at least 2 to 5 weeks.

Best Baby Foods: Feeding Baby Solid Foods & Pro-Biotics

Best foods for baby are fiber rich foods that build friendly gut bacteria.

Make sure your baby food plan includes lots of pureed vegetables including avocados, squash, yams.

Fiber rich foods are pre-biotic, meaning they feed the growth of friendly gut bacteria:

• Yogurt
• Kefir
• Lentils, chickpeas
• Leafy greens, spinach
• Yams, squash, potatoes, carrots, beets
• Broccoli, cucumber, carrots to chew on
• Bananas, apples
• Whole grain cereals, rice, oats

You may ASK US for a personal recommendation for:

• How to expose your kids to friendly germs in your surroundings

• pro-biotic and  pre-biotic foods and supplements

• immunotherapy supplements safe for babies
  

We hope that you have found our baby solid food guide helpful for preventing allergies.

• Be great if you sent us your best first foods for baby and baby food recipes 6 months!

• Also see: Toddler baby food and allergies
  

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