Infant Allergies -2      

           A Japanese study in 1992 showed that when one group of rats were fed with their own mother's milk and another group were fed with baby food which had the same composition of the mother's milk, they found that both the animal groups grew in the same way. There was no difference. But here is the interesting thing. They checked the stools excreted by the rats. That was one of the difference. They found that that breast fed rats stools had all healthy bacteria while commercial
baby food fed had all sorts of bacteria. The stools reflect our intestinal bacteria population. This means that commercial baby food allow  bacteria that causes
inflammation in the gut.
        Next observation they found was that the rats of commercial baby food fed increased the porosity of the intestines, talking in a lay man language. Our intestines normally acts like a filter and allows well digested nutrients into the blood system. Now if there is a leakage then big proteins escapes into the blood system. What happens in protein's escapes into the blood system?. The blood recognizes it as foreign (like it think of a bacteria or virus) and starts to produce anti-bodies. This causes immune reactions in the form of asthma, allergies, eczema etc. So if through leaky intestines, lets say example if wheat proteins escape into blood system, then infant develop allergies to wheat. This holds good for kids developing allergies to pollen or bugs or even to dust trapped in carpet.

         Not only baby foods but exposing too much of processed  foods early in child  hood causes inflammation in gut. Some baby foods  contain corn syrup as sweetening agents. Of course baby food companies will not high light these research findings . Increase in the use of these processed baby foods is the reason why in western countries we find people allergic to every sort of "form" in the universe. Others are blindly following  leaving their traditional healthy practices. In most of the traditional practices children are given less processed food sin the young age. Example, Ragi or African Millet  is given in south India. This is very healthy for kids because it is one of the best grain friendly for the intestines and prevent these type of allergic responses. Try foods that are unprocessed and contain no sweets. br>
           More interesting is that now researchers are finding evidences, that it is the mother's milk that dictates how the intestine will develop and how the food that we eat in early age of life dictates the bacterial population in our intestines. They admit that there are many bio-molecules in the mother's milk that gives signal for the intestines to mature adequately.  Take care not not to feed your baby with commercial / artificial baby-food which will alter her/his intestinal bacteria population and also the porosity of the intestines and increasing the risk to eczema , asthma and allergies later in life.

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