[wombat]

Not sure where to post this. I figured since it's about the risk of introducing cereals before 3 months or after 7 months, this forum might be appropriate?

I was reading this article :
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/...000_1000_ln_03

Quote:

Introducing cereal into the diet too early or too late may trigger type 1 diabetes in children who are genetically predisposed to get the disease.

Dh's family has diabetes so I was rather concerned at reading this. I don't think it's referring to rice cereal. Seems to be about the gluten containing cereals such as wheat, oatmeal etc. We haven't started oatmeal yet. dd is 8 months. I think we're gonna go REALLY slow on cereals.

 

[CyndyRR327]

Thank you! I"m diabetic and that was very informative! thank goodness we didn't start cereal until 4 months!!

 

[Worldshakerz]

I find this website very informative on many subjects. He talks a lot about how unhealthy grains are for most people (baby and adult). Check it out www.mercola.com

 

[DaryLLL]

I wondered why starting grains "too late" would cause diabetes in predisposed children, until I read this speculation in your article:

Quote:

Lead researcher Jill Norris, MPH, PhD, tells WebMD that it is not clear why introducing cereals late presents a problem, but it may be that children tend to eat more of a newly introduced food when they are older because they are hungrier. Studies in children with gluten sensitivity suggest that this may play a role in the disorder as the second study suggests. "It may be that the immune system, even in older babies, requires a gradual introduction of foods, and that introducing too much of a particular food at one time presents a problem," Norris says.

--as this contradicted with info I have that children do not produce all the digestive enzymes needed to fully digest grains until 18 months.

so, the moral would be, breastfeed, then introduce foods slowly, at any age, even past 1 year.