title: Nutrition of allergic babies and children.
abstract: Atopic diseases of babies and children are frequent, disabilitating, chronic and even life-threatening. The currently available cow's milk (CM) substitutes for infants with CM allergy (CMA) are soy protein (SP) formulas (SPFs), hydrolyzed formulas (HF), and homemade meat-based formulas. However, in the past few years the antigenicity/allergenicity of SPFs has been over-emphasized in the medical literature. We have demonstrated that SPF allergy incidence in oral food challenge (OFC)/doubleblind food challenge (DBFC)-based epidemiological studies attains 3-4%. CM-based protein hydrolysates have provoked 200 severe and less severe reactions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cantani
mesh_terms: D003611:Dairy Products / Q000009:adverse effects; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000009:adverse effects*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D030262:Soybean Proteins / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D030262:Soybean Proteins