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Hi, I'm Mona. My name is Katie and my son is six and a half months old and we had added six months

as his pediatrician about starting him on, you know, the best way to do,

how the algorithms, he has eggs, we are doing, I was sort of curious at four months and he's been

doing solids, more kind of like full solids. And he seems to have recommended that we wait.

And when I ask, I ask, calls several times and asks you if there's reason for waiting more

specific to him or if there's something about my son because all the research points to not

waiting and I'm just curious your thoughts. You know, he's a little older so I didn't know but I'd

love to know how what are the risks of waiting versus the risks of not waiting.

Hi, Katie. So thank you so much for this question. If your child has a medical condition,

namely a known food allergy, then yes, you will wait. You should probably see an allergist.

If your child has moderate to severe eczema, seeing an allergist before starting allergenic foods

is another medical indication of holding on your common allergenic foods. But if your child is

otherwise healthy, there is no reason to hold on allergenic foods. A lot of the recommendations

that I'm hearing that you were told by your pediatrician actually just sound like outdated advice.

And I unfortunately do hear a lot of pediatricians when I use the term old school pediatricians

that still go by those old school recommendations, but we know now in the last eight years that

that is not the case. So I really would be okay with that, but I would want you to make sure you

talk to your child's clinician on why, because I don't know your child's medical conditions.

The most common allergenic foods in the United States, the top nine are fish, soy, wheat,

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