
Study finds that most milk allergy guidelines promote overdiagnosis
Most international milk allergy and primary care guidelines are found to promote overdiagnosis through labelling normal infant symptoms as cow milk allergy, found a recent review of these guidelines. According to a study conducted by Rose Vincent and team from the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the international milk allergy and primary care guidelines often found labelling even normal infant symptoms as cow milk allergy. The researchers said that they conducted a detailed analysis of over 1303 infants over the course of a year incorporating dietary requirements and questionnaires to check their adverse reactions to particular foods. The researchers found that almost 73.6 percent of the infants had experienced multiple mild-to-moderate symptoms according to the guidelines, which specify colic, reflux, food refusal or aversion, diarrhoea, constipation, rashes and atopic dermatitis among mild symptoms.