Diet and Nutritional Status of Children with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy, Treated with a Milk-Free Diet

Rowicka Grażyna,Weker Halina,Strucińska Małgorzata,Riahi Agnieszka

doi:10.23937/2572-3308/1510025

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Diet and Nutritional Status of Children with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy, Treated with a Milk-Free Diet

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Milk and milk products play an important role in the diet of non-breastfed infants, and in the diet of children in subsequent years of life
Milk-free diets in children with Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy (CMPA) were adequate for most nutrients, but the children are at risk of vitamin D insufficiency despite the higher vitamin D content of their diets compared to the group of healthy children
The better balancing of the diets of children with allergy was probably due to continuous medical and nutritional care provided by paediatricians and dieticians

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Milk and milk products play an important role in the diet of non-breastfed infants, and in the diet of children in subsequent years of life. Those products are a source of complete protein, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins from B group (mainly B2) and contain fat-soluble vitamins A and D. The fat in milk consists primarily of short- and medium-chain fatty acids, which makes it digestible. Milk and its products are among the most common food allergens in the population of children. Cow’s milk contains more than 25 different proteins and some of them are known to be allergenic. The proteins that are most often responsible for causing allergies include casein, as well as α-lactalbumin and β-lactoglobulin of the whey fraction [1]

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