PMID: 9173401Nov 1, 1996Paper

Food allergy: recent findings

La Pediatria medica e chirurgica : Medical and surgical pediatrics
G FurcoloL Businco

Abstract

Food allergy induces in infancy and childhood a large variety of symptoms which may be trivial in many children, chronic and severe in others and even fatal in rare cases. According to double-blind placebo controlled oral food challenges, cow's milk, egg, wheat and fish are the most common offending foods. Elimination of the offending food(s) is imperative for the management of children with food allergy. An appropriate formula without cow's milk proteins and allergenic epitopes should be given to infants with cow's milk allergy. Breast feeding and selected weaning after the sixth month of life are recommended for the prevention of food allergy in atopic prone babies.

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