Eliminating food allergies

Food allergies are a result of the immune system mistakenly identifying specific foods to be harmful, thus reacting by creating antibodies to combat the perceived threat. — Handout

If your child has food allergies, his paediatrician may recommend that he be placed on a food elimination diet.

What it means is that you will need to temporarily eliminate specific foods from his diet, and possibly your diet as well, if you are still breastfeeding him. It should last around two to four weeks.