Milk Allergy Desensitization
I realize that once you become a member of the “label-reading club” because of food allergy, your life is forever changed. When you cant just take that cookie at the supermarket, or off of Grandma’s buffet table, life becomes more complicated. Avoiding peanuts and nuts is difficult (we do) but avoiding milk, wheat and egg is even harder (we do that too)
My son wishes most to outgrow milk. He wants to have “real” pizza and ice cream. Someday!
I found this abstract about Rush immunotherapy so interesting. Wouldnt it be nice if doctors here could desensitize our kids in 5 days!
Oral rush desensitization to cow milk. Following of desensitized patients during three years.
We report the induction of tolerance in four patients with severe IgE-mediated cow’s milk allergy, with an oral rush desensitization by introducing increasing daily doses of cow’s milk (CM) for 5 days under clinical conditions in order to enable the patients to tolerate 200 ml of CM daily. Our results indicate that we can induce clinical tolerance in CM allergy by oral administration of progressive doses of milk. After three years of following, the four patients are taking CM with good tolerance. Specific IgE levels of casein have decreased progressively during these three years until being not detectable in three of the four patients and also a reduction has been observed in the cutaneous skin prick test reactions to CM.
Oral rush desensitization to cow milk. Following of desensitized patients during three years.
