New Hope For Children With Milk Allergies

cow Young children often suffer from milk allergies, and they can be difficult to deal with as so many meals contain milk in some form. A new research study by the Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center provides hope that there may someday be a way to control or reduce symptoms from milk and other food related allergies. Though only a small trial the study found children who were given powdered milk over a four month period has a significant increase in their tolerance to milk.

Powdered Milk Study

A double blind placebo controlled study was conducted by researchers with some children given milk powder and others a placebo. The researchers found that those who were given the powdered milk daily were able to greatly increase their tolerance to milk while those given the placebo did not. Milk tolerance increased over the four month period from 40mg to 2,540mg and the result are encouraging despite the fact that it was a small study.

Researchers theorize that a small dose of powdered milk allowed the immune system to retrain itself to become tolerant of milk. The theory could be used to treat a variety of allergies with oral immunotherapy, similar to the method used for allergy drops.

See our article on milk allergies for more information related to milk allergies and milk allergy symptoms

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