Drinking milk may ease milk allergy

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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.

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Alana