We had G's annual allergist appointment today. I brought up recent Mt Sinai milk allergy study, which showed that about two thirds of kids with confirmed dairy allergy could tolerate milk if it was thoroughly baked, as in bread. Furthermore, the kids that regularly ate "baked-in" milk for three months showed improvement in their RAST and skin test results. In other words, it looks like it might desensitize the body to the allergen and leads me to think that it could help kids to outgrow their dairy allergy.
Our allergist didn't seem too keen on the idea of introducing G to baked-in egg. Boo. I was kind of hoping that she was give me the thumbs up. But I do know that this isn't something to be messed around with at home. Kids have died in desensitization experiments, even in hospital settings. And it's true the one third of the kids were not able to tolerate baked-in milk products in this study.
In our case, the allergist said that we will reevaluate in six months when G gets his yearly RAST testing. His numbers went down a bit from age one to age two, so she's slightly hopeful. Given that he gets hives from contact with milk I'm not going to get too excited yet.
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I read the article about the Mt. Sinai study, and I have to say that the "warm milk" in the headline is not at all the same as the "exensively heated" milk that is mentioned in the article. I can just imagine people that only saw the headline walking around telling people that kids with dairy allergies can tolerate milk as long as it is "warm." Gah!
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