Milk Allergy a More Persistent Food Allergy Than Previously Thought
This is a terrific article by CNN’s Sharona Schwartz who wrote about the latest research on cow’s milk allergy by Dr Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins. (author of Food Allergy for Dummies with Joe Kraynak)
Study: Milk allergy can take years longer to outgrow
Researchers found a “significantly different natural history of milk allergy than what had been reported in virtually all of the previous studies, Wood said.
According to the study, which examined children who had been sent by a doctor to a pediatric allergy center, “the prognosis for developing tolerance [to milk] is worse than previously estimated.”
The study found that 79 percent of the group outgrew their allergy to milk by the age of 16, which means one in five did not outgrow the milk allergy by that age.
The authors said that the character of cow’s milk allergy “has changed over time … and may now truly be a more persistent disease.”
November 20, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Hello, I found you on the blogher site. I clicked on your post. I am a grown woman with a life threatening allergy to milk, milk proteins, caiseine, cheese, butter anything and everything that has traces of milk proteins. I was not always allergic. I grew up drinking milk and eating cheese pizza, no problems ever. By the time I was about 25 I began having flu-like symptoms, I got pneumonia only it wasn’t . So my Dr. and a team of other medical professionals decided to start testing for allegies, nothing registered and yet I was getting sicker all the time. I was hopsitalized once and in a come another time. Anyway we figured out by process of elimination that I had this freak milk allergy that masks itself as something else. I am 44 years old now and the allergy has shown no signs of regressing or leaving. I have learned to live with this. So thnaks for championing this effort–there are a great many adults who have this same deal as I. Thank you.
Love,
Babz