milk allergy
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type of food allergy caused by milk
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Within Vinony's link graph, milk allergy is referenced by 233 other articles, and connects out to food allergy, asthma and allergy.
It sits within the topics Citation overkill, Food allergies and Milk.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Specialty
- Emergency medicine , Allergy & immunology
- Symptoms
- itchiness , rash , swelling of lips, tongue or the whole face , eczema , wheezing and shortness of breath , nausea , vomiting , abdominal pain, diarrhea , anaphylaxis
- Causes
- Type I hypersensitivity
- Risk factors
- Childhood in developed countries where cow's milk infant formula is introduced to supplement or after breast feeding ends
- Diagnostic method
- Medical history and standard allergy tests
- Prevention
- Exclusive breastfeeding for four to six months
- Treatment
- Epinephrine , Antihistamines (mild)
- Prognosis
- approximately 20% persist into adulthood
- Frequency
- 2–3% in infants, declining to 0.6% in adults
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
10,049 papers- Cow's milk allergy.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2022
- Cow's Milk Allergy in Breastfed Infants: What We Need to Know About Mechanisms, Management, and Maternal Role.Nutrients · 2025
- Milk allergy over-diagnosis.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022
- Cow's milk allergy prevention.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2021
- Cow's Milk Allergy or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease-Can We Solve the Dilemma in Infants?Nutrients · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
Milk allergy is an adverse immune reaction to one or more proteins in cow's milk. Symptoms may take hours to days to manifest, with symptoms including atopic dermatitis, inflammation of the esophagus, enteropathy involving the small intestine and proctocolitis involving the rectum and colon. However, rapid anaphylaxis is possible, a potentially life-threatening condition that requires treatment with epinephrine, among other measures.
In the United States, 90% of allergic responses to foods are caused by eight foods, including cow's milk. Recognition that a small number of foods are responsible for the majority of food allergies has led to requirements to prominently list these common allergens, including dairy, on food labels. One function of the immune system is to defend against infections by recognizing foreign proteins, but it should not overreact to food proteins. Heating milk proteins can cause them to become denatured, losing their three-dimensional configuration and allergenicity, so baked goods containing dairy products may be tolerated while fresh milk triggers an allergic reaction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “milk allergy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.