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Adequacy and tolerance to ass's milk in an Italian cohort of children with cow's milk allergy.

Tesse, R; Paglialunga, C; Braccio, S; Armenio, L (2009) Adequacy and tolerance to ass's milk in an Italian cohort of children with cow's milk allergy. Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 35 (19). ISSN 1824-7288 https://doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-19
SGUL Authors: Braccio, Serena

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The therapy for cow's milk proteins allergy (CMPA) consists in eliminating cow's milk proteins (CMP) from the child's diet. Ass's milk (AM) has been recently considered as substitute of CMP. This prospective study investigated tolerance and nutritional adequacy of AM in children with CMPA from Southern Italy. METHODS: Thirty children (aged 6 months to 11 years) with suspected CMPA were enrolled. They underwent skin prick tests and bouble-blind, placebo controlled food challenge to CMP. After confirming the diagnosis of CMPA, patients received fresh AM in a open challenge. Specific serum CMP and AM IgE, and biochemical parameters in blood were also assessed. Auxological evaluations were performed in all subjects at entry (T0) and after 4-6 months (T1) of AM intake. RESULTS: Twenty-five children resulted elegible for the study, and 24 out of 25 subjects (96%) tolerated AM at the food challenge. Auxological data resulted improved by the end of the study in all patients, while blood biochemical parameters did not vary during the follow-up. CONCLUSION: Our data confirm the high rate of AM tolerability in children with moderate symptoms of CMPA. Moreover, we found that AM seems to have nutritional adequacy in subjects with a varied diet.

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Additional Information: © 2009 Tesse et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: 1114 Paediatrics And Reproductive Medicine
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
ISSN: 1824-7288
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
9 July 2009Published
PubMed ID: 19589131
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107381
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-19

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