Food Allergies

I first stumbled upon the concept of traditional eating when our Doctor suggested that I avoid milk to see if helped Bug, who was refusing to nurse. Apparently the proteins in dairy products are very hard to digest and they can be irritating to immature digestive systems. I found that raw milk has enzymes in it to help break down these proteins. I decided to avoid milk all together at that time, and Bug seemed to do better once I finally got it all out my system.
All was well, so we thought until I let her chew on a whole apple at 11 months. Within a few hours her face was bright red. We were perplexed as she had been eating apple products since 6 months with no problems. So we stopped feeding her apples but the rash didn't go away. The next thing we eliminated was her latex pacifiers and finally someone told us that banana allergies and apple allergies were sometimes related. So we eliminated bananas, and the rash went away, and she started sleeping through the night!
Around 20 months she had another reaction, this time to soy, and our family doctor did some muscle testing to see what her allergies actually were. Her list was Dairy, Soy, Peanuts, Bananas, Apples, Apricots, Pineapple, Latex and Tomato. She recently outgrew the Dairy allergy, but all of the others remain.
I believe avoidance is the best course of action for food allergies. We were blessed that none of her allergies reactions were severe, but we every time she had something from her list she would be up in the middle of the night. The wonderful thing about a traditional diet is allergens can be easily avoided. Nourishing Traditions discourages the use of Soy unless it is naturally fermented, so and ingredient that is hard to avoid in a modern diet is very easily omitted from a traditional diet. While, whey protein from dairy products is used for soaking grains, and legumes, this can be replaced by lemon juice or vinegar yielding the same results.

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