Hard, as goalposts keep on changing

PARENTS have a minefield of information to process.

We enter parenthood fashioned by our own childhoods, preconceived ideas and emboldened by information gleaned from the internet.

Along with advice from parents, friends and other parents, there are plenty of experts out there to help you along the way. But all that information can present its own problems; it can be hard to know what advice to follow.

There are experts from different fields, or from the same field, offering different recommendations. New studies are done, information updated and what you thought was right is now deemed not so good.

And then you have friends sharing their own experiences and parents reminding you of what “they did in their day”.

This is the battlefield parents face, and when it comes to allergies, it’s no different.

Parents can quite rightly be anxious when introducing potentially dangerous foods into a child’s diet.

Nuts, eggs and seafood can trigger severe reactions.

Over the years the advice pertaining to when certain foods should be introduced to a child’s diet has changed. Which way do we turn? It’s tough and as parents we want to do the right thing.

Part of that job is to listen to the experts and then try to make an informed choice.