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Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Woman's Our Parenting Podcast this week.

This is about how you best look after your children with food allergies.

They are common. At 6% we're told of children in the developing world have an allergy of some kind.

And we wanted to look at how you can feed your child

well if they do have any allergies. My guest is Claire Thornton Wood,

pediatric dietician and I asked her what were the common food groups that

children were most likely to be allergic to. So the most common food group is

milk that's the most common one and then following that it's eggs, and then it becomes peanuts,

tree nuts, fish a bit less common, wheat.

Right, let's start with milk, obviously. Can you be allergic to breast milk?

You can be allergic to breast milk and the reason for that is because the foods that the mother eat then pass through the breast milk and are

consumed by the baby. So yes if we have a child that has an allergy to a

particular food we would ask the mother to remove that food from from her diet.

Right, okay, but not easy to do to put it mildly.

It depends what it is but no, possibly not easy to do. How would you know actually if a very young

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