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Summary: The importance of controlling your kids' food allergies. Learn about children's nutrition, food allergies, and getting kids to eat healthy in this free video.
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Lisa La Barr Lisa La Barr is AFPA certified, a WAPF member, and a personal nutrition and wellness expert in Beverly Hills. She has almost 10 years of health care experienc... read more
Hey there. Your child's food allergies, what's the big deal with that? That's what I know you're asking, because we're all thinking big deal, food allergies, so you get a little sniffling in the stomach, a little stomach ache or something like that. But it's actually very important to control these, especially in a child, where they're trying to actually absorb their nutrients and they actually want to, of course, grow to their potential, be as smart as you want them to be, the Albert Einstein that you want them to be, and whatever famous actor you want them to be. So basically with that, their immune system, what happens is if they have the peanuts they're allergic to, the egg that they're allergic to, wheat, milk, soy, whatever that allergen happens to be, their immune system gets all riled up and what happens is all this histamine gets actually flooded into the body and that's where you get those other reactions; the hives, eczema, or the mucusy problems or any of those other issues, the stomach issues. And basically, all that does it actually makes an exhaust in your child's adrenal glands and their immune system. And basically all they can do, is later on in life, they may have seemingly unrelated health issues because of this little small, little thing like wheat, eggs, peanuts, soy, milk or anything like that. And you don't want that to happen. You want to make sure that they are ultimate health, and if they are allergic to these foods, not only is their immune system flooding their body and stressing all their organs out, but they're actually not even absorbing the nutrients from these nice, healthful things. So if they're not, if they're actually allergic to these foods, it's not going to be healthy for them. So either alleviate them or you can do other things to help them out.