How to deal with milk allergies ?

The only treatment for milk allergy is the elimination diet. It depends primarily on the use of protein hydrolyzate milk. For what causes the allergic reaction, it is certain milk proteins. But if they are cut into pieces, they become generally harmless. The problem is that these formulas are often very bitter (but the baby drinks, because it tolerates them better than normal milk!).

Therefore, there are also other protein hydrolysates of soluble casein, soy, hydrolyzed collagen (before it was beef, but with mad cow, pig he is today). For children who have problems with protein hydrolysates, it must cut them into pieces even smaller: the amino acids. Attention often requires some time between the introduction of the system of exclusion and the disappearance of allergic symptoms.

The improvement does not appear overnight. It often takes two to three weeks between the change in formula and the disappearance of digestive problems.

When reintroducing milk?

Good news for all parents of children allergic to milk is one of the disorders that usually disappears after the first year of life. It has virtually disappeared in all children before the age of 5 or 6 years. Parents can then start to consider reintroducing milk to 9 months or a year. First step: monitoring of IgE. This ensures that the risk of allergic reaction is low. Unless of course it is a non-IgE-dependent, related to a delayed allergy. In this case, the return will be a little blind (the patch-test does not assess the loss of allergy).

but under medical supervision: the doctor or nurse puts the milk on the skin, if nothing happens, it puts on the inside of the lip, and if nothing happens, we do enjoy a dairy product. If the reintroduction did not go well, you can try again three months later. If it does not, we move to a period of six months, and if the result is always negative, it retries every year.

Please note, sometimes there are delayed reactions: the reintroduction goes well, then after one to two weeks, diarrhea or other manifestations appear.In this case, it will try again later. Similarly, some children will be able to eat yogurt daily. but no more! In this case, they must leave the dairy product until they can eat more.

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