Oral Desensitization in Nursling with Cow’s Milk Allergy

Oral desensitization in children with cow's milk allergy.

INTRODUCTION Current treatment of food allergies consists of the elimination of the offending food from the diet. Desensitization or tolerance induction can be an alternative for those children who have not achieved tolerance spontaneously. We propose a cow's milk desensitization protocol carried out in an outpatient setting over a 9-10 week period. PATIENTS AND METHOD Eighteen children older...

Oral Food Desensitization in Children With IgE-Mediated Cow's Milk Allergy: Immunological Changes Underlying Desensitization

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy to induce clinical desensitization to cow's milk (CM) of an oral immunotherapy (OIT) protocol in a pediatric population with cow's milk allergy (CMA). In addition, the immune responses against β-casein, of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from CMA patients, before and after the protocol were evaluated and compared to a nonal...

Re: Oral desensitization as a useful treatment in 2-year-old children with cow's milk allergy.

BACKGROUND Limited published evidence shows oral desensitization to be a potential intervention option for cow's milk protein (CMPs) allergy. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of oral desensitization in 2-year-old children with cow's milk allergy, as a treatment alternative to elimination diet. METHODS A total of 60 children aged 24-36 months with IgE-m...

Succesful oral desensitization in a teenage boy with severe cow’s milk allergy

Case report A fourteen-year old boy was referred to our clinic for follow-up with the diagnosis of cow’s milk allergy. At 3 months of age, he had immediate rash around his mouth and vomiting when he was first introduced with infant formula. Since then, he was on a milk restriction diet. He had three anaphylactic reactions needing emergency visit, and epinephrine injections. His last anaphylacti...

Managing cows' milk allergy in children.