Almost every source I’ve read recommends NOT giving wheat or wheat products to babies until they are at least 9-10 months old, some suggest not until 2 or 3 years old!!! But all the cereals, except plain rice cereal (which has very little nutritional value) contain wheat. I have been giving my 7 month old daughter cereal since 5 1/2 months. I started with rice then oatmeal then mixed and now I just started giving her barley cereal this week. My pediatrician has recommended all of this and according to my research, so do most nutritionists. So is it just me or is this a huge SNAFU?

*On a personal note, my daughter’s father has Celiac Sprue Disease (wheat/gluten allergy which can wreak havoc on the body) and I am very worried about my daughter developing the condition. I have done everything in my power to prevent it, such a breastfeeding until 6 months (I had to stop for medical reasons at that point) and I’m very careful about her diet.

So here’s my question… Does anyone else find this discrepency as irritating and confusing as I do? Also, are there any alternative cereals, besides plain rice cereal, that do not contain wheat or gluten? Thanks in advance and cheers!

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One in three parents find it difficult to find out how to fight allergies

Avoid rugs. They are just dust collectors.

Avoid wood flooring.  The dust whirls around instead of staying in one place.

Both advice to prevent allergies exist. Like thousands of sites worldwide that are filled with more or less good advice on what to do if you want to help your children to avoid becoming one of the increasing number of allergy sufferers.

But some advice confuses more than it benefits, and every three toddlers parents think there are many conflicting advice.

“It may be difficult as allergic or parent to a child with an allergy to navigate through the many advice you get. Well-intentioned family members and friends do not hesitate to make suggestions about what to do. And on the Internet is a great deal of information too. Unfortunately, they are far from worthwhile all together, and some also obscured the fact that it is in fact talking about the sale of certain products”.

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You as a parents should know where the advice comes from.

“‘And you are told that something works, then we must ask, how do you know that?.  We can then consider whether we think it sounds unlikely”.

The many conflicting advice and confusion over them may be one of the reasons that few parents follow the advice that the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America  provides.

»”We only provide information, that we are sure of scientific. There are no easy solutions, but we can still do some even to prevent allergies and make life easier for those who already suffer from it” the Foundation says and invites parents to contact the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America’s free advice.

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