There is often great confusion regarding cow’s milk allergy (CMA) and Lactose Intolerance, with the terms often used interchangeably despite both being separate disorders and very distinct. As described above, food allergies such as cow’s milk allergy are a form of food intolerance that involves the immune system. Lactose intolerance describes a form of food intolerance caused by deficiency of a specific enzyme and does not involve the immune system
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Cows Milk – Allergy or intolerance?
Monday, October 6th, 2008Cows milk allergy? Any advice?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008This is my first blog and I’m doing it to see if anyone has any useful information they can give me. Let me tell you the problem, my 6 year old son was born with to the symptoms he has now.He was diagnosed with a CMA after showing severe colitis when he was about a week old. He was put on Neocate and after a year we weaned him back on cow’s milk. He showed no colitis so they said he’d outgrown the allergy.
Not long after this he developed an ear infection that for 18 months would not clear up. He had tubes put in to allow drainage. They were taken out 2 years later and they said that should be the end of his problems.