How to Avoid Allergies While Introducing Solid Foods

by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., author of Feeding: The Brazelton Way

1. Start one new solid food at a time. This gives you a chance to test the baby's sensitivity to it. If you can ferret out which solids he can't tolerate, you may be able to protect your baby from eczema and other allergic reactions to foods.
2. Continue with that food for a week.
3. Read the labels on baby food jars and cans. If there is more than one kind of food in a container, this is not the time to introduce it.
4. Don't use mixtures, because they can be loaded with different kinds of cereals to which you don't want to expose the baby.
5. Don't start solids until your baby is at least 4 months old.

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Excerpted from Feeding: The Brazelton Way © 2004 by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., and Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Perseus.

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