There are many reasons that can cause allergy in children. Finally, you can get rid of this problem only by revealing the allergen and excluding all contacts of the baby with it. As practice shows, this can be very difficult. In this article, we will tell you how you can find out what the child is allergic to in order to protect the crumb from the unpleasant symptoms of the disease.
How to determine what the child is allergic to?
The most effective and quickest way to determine the allergen is to contact a qualified allergist. The doctor, having examined the baby and having a conversation with his parents, will state his assumptions, which the child may have an allergy. Further, using modern laboratory methods, it is necessary to confirm or disprove all the options.
Usually, provocative tests are used for this. This diagnostic method is an introduction to the organ that is most susceptible to allergies, the suspected allergen.
In addition, you can determine the allergen independently. For this it is necessary to buy special test strips in the pharmacy. Then you have to take the blood from the baby and drop it on the analysis instrument. Approximately in half an hour the test strip will show if there is an allergy to this or that substance, or not.
Finally, the parents of children who suffer from allergies on a regular basis should create a special diary in which it is necessary to note daily what the baby was eating, and in what conditions he was, and also his reaction. So, step by step, by trial and error, you will be able to detect the allergen and reduce the contact of crumbs with it to a minimum.