Consumption of Unprocessed Cow’s Milk Protects Infants From Common Respiratory Infections

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G Loss, M Depner, LH Ulfman. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015;135(1):56–62 To evaluate the effects of infant consumption of processed and raw cow’s milk on common infections and fever in infants. The study included 983 infants from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland recruited in the PASTURE birth cohort, all living in rural areas. For this prospective birth cohort study (PASTURE), women in their third trimester of pregnancy were recruited from rural areas of Austria, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland. They were given weekly diaries to complete for their children for infections (including rhinitis, fever ≥38.5°C, otitis, cough, …