Re: Drinking milk may ease milk allergy

[Guest guest]

I know there are some people with lactose intolerance who can tolerate small amounts of dairy product. I can see where they are coming from on this one.

Incidentally, there are different rates of lactose intolerance in different ethnic groups. In Northern Europeans, the rate is very low. On the Mediterranean, though, it is considerably higher. SE Asians are generally lactose intolerant - look at the absense of dairy products in Chinese, Japanese and Thai food. And Native Americans are completely lactose intolerant.

Jenn

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Subject: Drinking milk may ease milk allergyTo: asthma Date: Sunday, 23 November, 2008, 3:03 PM

Drinking milk may ease milk allergy

Milk may be a treatment for milk allergy. In a carefully controlled study, researchers from s Hopkins Children's Center and Duke University found that giving milk-allergic children milk in increasingly higher doses over time eased their allergic reactions to milk and even helped some of the children completely overcome their milk allergy.

The findings suggest that giving milk-allergic children milk "gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions," Dr. Wood, senior investigator on the study and director of Allergy & Immunology at Hopkins Children's in Baltimore, noted in a statement.

"These results suggest that oral immunotherapy may be the closest thing yet to a 'true' treatment for food allergy," Wood added.

He and colleagues caution, however, that much more study is needed and they advise parents and caregivers not to try giving milk to children who are allergic to it without medical supervision.

http://tinyurl.com/6h8eb3

Alana

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[Guest guest]

Yeah. Works with meds too. Found out the hard way. As a child I had

an allergy to penicillin. It was only a mild reaction, and back then

there weren't that many choices. Anyway, I ended up with scarlet

fever and they gave me massive doses of it. Now it is like a sugar

pill. Does nothing one way or the other.

Madeline

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[Guest guest]

Its funny, but milk can either be totally fine for me OR it can put me on the floor doubled over with the worst cramps Ive ever had. Theres no rhyme or reason to it...and even better...it only happens with plain milk in plain milk form. Ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt or even flavored milk...none of these have ever caused this reaction. But, to this day plain old regular run of the mill milk might or might not double me over.

Im trying to lower my cholesterol (like its going very well..lol) but one of the things I did was start drinking soy milk so now I dont even worry about regular milk anymore.

Ann

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