Researchers found that one in four parents reported two or more possible “mild to moderate” symptoms every month. Symptoms were most numerous at three months of age, when all children were fully breastfed and not directly consuming cow’s milk. At six months of age, there was no difference in the number of children with two or more symptoms between those consuming and not consuming cow’s milk. Together, these findings suggest that the majority of symptoms listed in cow’s milk allergy guidelines are common, normal and not caused by cow’s milk allergy.
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'Frequency of guideline-defined cow’s milk allergy symptoms in infants: secondary analysis of EAT trial data' by Rosie Vincent et al. in Clinical and Experimental Allergy