MIlk and Egg Allergies, Harder to Outgrow

Filed in archive Allergy: Research and Development , Food Allergies on December 22, 2007

If The results of a new study is to be considered, it seems that my son is one of the lucky ones who has outgrown his milk and egg allergies. According to new research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, milk and egg allergies appear to be more persistent and harder to outgrow.

Researchers followed more than 800 patients with milk allergy and nearly 900 with egg allergy over 13 years in the largest studies to date of children with milk and egg allergies.

The study, published in the November and December issues of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that most of these allergies persist well into the school years and beyond.

How do you estimate your child'schances of outgrowing his food allergies? They say that if the antibody test results indicate a higher the level of antibodies, the less likely it was that a child would outgrow the allergy any time soon.