Lack of mother's breastfeeding and all these food allergies?

Question

1. It has been proven that breast feed babies are healthier and have fewer allegries and illness.
2. I have noticed a rise in kids with food allergies
3. It appears to me that fewer mothers are breast feeding Is there a connection
When i was growing up i had food allergies but i was like the only one in my class if not school now you go into a school and half the class is allergic to something, Wheat, nuts, the acid in some fruits, chocolate. This is nuts don't you think if more women breastfeed the problems would go away

Answer 1

That's a simple answer.... and possible. Many formula fed babies do not have food allergies, and many breastfed babies do.
The generation before ours (baby boomers) were raised on formula, pablum, milk, fed foods before 4-6 months (all the rules of today did not apply). Why aren't food allergies as prevelent as they are in our children's generation?

Answer 2

I think it will take a few generations of breastfed children (as in breastfed babies feeding their babies and so on) to fix the problem. Part of it too I believe is people feeding solids too early. you see it all the time in here people saying "just put some cereal in their bottle to help them fill up" They are a couple of months old. They should not be having any food other than milk. A baby wakes at night to feed on milk. Food should never be in a bottle nor should it be before 6 months. This has proven to increase the chances of allergies greatly. So stopping this would also help

Answer 3

Much as I think formula should be available by prescription only, I have to agree with naenae... that this problem is multicausal. The environmental degradation, the huge number of processed foods that have entered the diet at an ever accelerating rate, the hit to the immune system that day care is producing in a huge number of kids, not to mention better diagnosis and access to health care and goodness knows what else also undoubtedly factor into all these food allergies.

Answer 4

All I can go on is personal experience. I have three kids, now 6, 8 and 10. I breastfed them all for between 10-14 months. Not a single one of them has any sort of food allergy at all. Plus, my kids hardly ever get sick, and when they do, the recover quickly.

However, I do know kids who weren't breastfed and DO have food allergies and are always sick.

Answer 5

1. My kids were not breastfed and are hardly ever sick and have no allergies
2. I have found no connection with nuts and breastfeeding. The only kids that I know that have severe food allergies and other allergies WERE breastfed.

Now...what's your question?

Answer 6

Actually statistically many MORE mothers are breastfeeding these days than in our mothers' generation. BAck then formula was the thing to do.

Answer 7

I do not want anything sucking on any part of my body.

Answer 8

yes, breast is best