Children and infants with cow’s milk allergy tolerated an extensively hydrolyzed whey-protein formula, providing suitable nutrition and enabling normal growth curves, according to study findings.
The formula also met international criteria for hypoallergenicity, Lamia Dahdah, MD, experienced specialist with the allergy unit in the pediatric university department at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, and colleagues wrote in the study, published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.
When infants and children have cow’s milk allergy (CMA) and breastfeeding is not possible,