title: Formula feeding during cow's milk allergy.
abstract: Cow's milk allergy (CMA) is an immunologically mediated reaction to cow's milk proteins, which affects infant and young children. Cow milk elimination requires either breast-feeding, with or without elimination diet in mother or the use of specific formulas, based on cow's milk protein extensively hydrolyzed, which fit 90-95% of children with cow's milk allergy. In others, still reactive to allergic remnants in hydrolysates, an amino acid based formula is the optimal option. The good tolerance of soy formulas in a reasonable proportion of children with cow's milk allergy make them useful, including as a 1(st)-choice alternative, except probably for those below the age of 6 months. Any elimination diet in children is at risk of nutritional deficiency so that a constant monitoring of the growth parameters should be kept in those children.
authors.affiliation: Cochin Faculty of Medicine, Paris V University, Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul Hospita, Paris, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dupont
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Boissieu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007223:Infant; D041943:Infant Formula / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008892:Milk / Q000009:adverse effects; D016269:Milk Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D041942:Soy Milk / Q000008:administration & dosage