Infant Allergies - How Much Is Too Much Sugar?

Many people often ask is it possible to have a sugar allergy. They always remark it just seems as if their body is so sensitive to any excess consumption of sugar.

Common conflicting symptoms after eating too much sugar include:

stomachache or indigestion gas, abdominal cramps and diarrhea hyperactivity, anxiousness or even depression sluggish, bloated feeling with stiff joints and muscles

Now you must realize, this is the common symptoms in an adult or a grown child. We actually do have a matured digestive system which is supposed to be capable of breaking down the component parts of the foods we eat on a daily basis.

If we are having this kind of difficulty, just imagine what a newborn child or a very young child must be feeling like.

But I Don't Feed My Baby Sugar

I often get to hear this one. My answer though - "When's the last time you have read the ingredient label on your child's can or bottle of formula?" Or if you happen to be breastfeeding exclusively, "what's in your diet?"

Sugar is not just that white stuff which is on your table in a sugar bowl. Candy, cookies, crackers, bakery or bread products, dairy products and fruit juices or fruit beverages, dried fruits and some vegetables, desserts and snack foods. This list is just the tip of the food products we use on a daily basis that can have high sugar contents. All of these have either natural sugars or can be high in added sugars during manufacturing and processing.

Then there is the honey, molasses, powdered sugar and brown sugar. What about the fructose, sucrose, dextrose and all of these types which are added during manufacturing.

Then our regular foods such as condiments are often high in sugar. Ketchup, BBQ sauce and salad dressings are three perfect examples. If you put sweetener in your coffee, your cup of tea, have a soda, drink some fruit juice. All of these all have a lot of hidden sugar.

So if you happen to be breastfeeding and you are using these types of items on a daily basis, unfortunately your baby is too.

Then there is the other option. - baby's formula. Commonly, these formulas are for a newborn up to about two years of age. As a parent,we anticipate and expect a company to provide us with a product which is nutritionally sound for our baby's diet.

A recent survey of assorted formula varieties - just randomly pulled from the store's shelves, yielded some very surprising and disturbing results to the field of health care. Some of the major labeled companies, when their varieties were tested and the sugars were added up, greater than 50% of the formula was nothing but different types of sugar.

One variety, added to all these sugars was the ingredient soy protein isolate as itemized on the ingredient label. This ingredient tested out as a genetically modified form of soy. This formula also had an accumulation of soy oil itself in it as an ingredient. The soy oil tested out as a genetically modified version of soy plus it was a chemically altered extraction method used in processing which raises its toxicity level of chemicals unsafe for human consumption.

Then safflower oil was added which is very high in saturated fats (the bad kind) plus various other kinds of chemically altered vitamins and fillers were enclosed. The only actually good for you component in the entire formula was a small percentage of pure virgin coconut oil.

Check the front label on this package and it was labeled very predominantly on the front as a "complete nutritionally balanced meal for your child." How can any company believe this combination of ingredients is nutritionally balanced?

Even a person completely ignorant of diet and nutrition can tell with continued use this product is going to aggravate any possible infant allergies the child may have, is going to lead to obesity and a possible future diagnosis of diabetes.

All of this information is right on the ingredient label itself. You can never be too busy to take the few necessary minutes to read this label to guarantee your own baby's health.

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