You can reduce the risk of sinus infections for your child by reducing exposure to known environmental allergies and pollutants such as tobacco smoke, reducing his/her time at day care, and treating stomach acid reflux disease.

Breast feeding is generally protective of allergy. When this is not possible, efforts should be made to wean/supplement with extensively hydrolyzed hypoallergenic protein hydrolysate.

Also, the following feeding rules should be followed:

• The child should have at least a six month delay in consuming solid foods
• The child should be 6-12 months old before consuming cow’s milk and dairy and products.
• The child should be 12-24 months old before being offered eggs.
• The child should be 24-28 months of age before peanut, tree nut, and seafood is introduced.

If the infant continues to struggle, we recommend testing for other ingestant allergies such as egg and soy.