Cow’s Milk Allergy: IgE-Mediated Allergy or Lactose Intolerance?

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Cow’s milk allergy results when antibodies against milk allergens are produced by the immune system.

Milk allergens are proteins; more than 25 distinct milk proteins have been identified in the various fractions of milk. The fractions include casein, whey, serum, and certain additional ingredients. (more…)

Feeding Lactose-Intolerant Baby: How to Give Milk-Free Infant Formulas

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If the breast-fed baby is lactose intolerant (usually a temporary condition following intestinal infection at this age), mothers can continue to breast-feed, or pump their milk and treat it with lactase enzyme, until the baby’s symptoms stop. Details concerning feeding the lactose-intolerant infant are provided. There is no point in mothers’ eliminating milk and milk products from their diet to treat lactose intolerance in the baby, because their breast milk will contain 6 percent lactose (w/v) regardless of whether or not they consume cow’s milk. (more…)

Gastrointestinal Allergy Symptoms and Food Intolerance

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Gastrointestinal allergy can be classified according to the triggering antigen, the mechanism of immune reaction, or the anatomic site of reaction.

Gastrointestinal allergy may be triggered by food components (e.g. food proteins or glycoproteins), and by other antigen antibody reaction to (e.g. bacterial disease, viral, fungal, and worm antigen), drugs and chemicals, (more…)

Symptoms of Milk Allergy & Food Allergy in Children

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Cow’s milk is the most frequently encountered food allergen in infancy, and milk allergy is often the earliest indicator that a baby is atopic. Precise figures of the incidence of cow’s milk allergy (CMA) are hard to find because of the difficulties in obtaining an accurate diagnosis, differences in the populations used for research studies, and disagreement about the symptoms (clinical criteria) for the condition. (more…)

Food Allergies - Why the Wrong Diagnosis Can Be the Difference Between Life and Death

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Many people will tell you that they have a food allergy; in fact in today’s society it is considered to be trendy, with celebrities announcing their food allergies on the front covers of magazines. However, true food allergies aren’t as common as you might think and they usually only affect as few as two percent of children. (more…)

Food Allergy Reactions: Triggers and Sources

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In theory, any kind of food is having the capability to trigger food allergic reaction in our body. All foods contain molecules capable of triggering a response of the immune system. However, for many reasons—including both the structure of the food molecules and our body’s immunological responses—the foods that cause the majority of allergic reactions tend to be few in number. (more…)