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Right. And the conventional wisdom does not apply to all cases. Those
in the "allergic 2%" - highly allergic and/or with multiple atopic
disorders - may never outgrow theirs. Our highly atopic 21-year-old
is still highly allergic to milk.
My mild childhood symptoms got significantly worse starting at age 17.
I have heard of a few cases where a child with a hair-trigger
reaction to dairy completely disappeared at roughly age ten.
Pretty much everybody's mileage differs :-)
And the other things mentioned below are considerations. It may be
that the reactivity lessens but is still there - I've heard that
described as "sub-clinical." So the patient might not suffer
anaphylaxis, but the presence of dairy might make hay fever or asthma
worse; or might raise the patient closer to their threshold, so some
lesser allergen might then push them over the edge.
I know our family (my three boys and I) are off of dairy for the rest
of our lives - unless there's a cure.
Mark
>Not all children who are truely allergic( anaphylactic) to milk
>outgrow a milk protein allergy. According to our
>allergist/pulminologist as they get older they usually "tolerate"
>milk broken down such as "whey" in a baked good and by the time they
>are adults will not react anaphylactically any longer to parts of
>milk that the protein has been broken down such as "whey" . But even
>if not anaphylactic(medical emergency) they would still be
>considered allergic and the symptoms will/can manifest themselves
>differently i.e. stomach upset, congestion, eczema etc.....
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