Milk allergy in children can be cured by dripping milk under tongue

A small study recently showed that milk allergy in children can be cured by dripping drops of milk under the tongue of the child. Small amounts of milk protein infant dropped under the tongue, and this seems to be working to reduce the body's response when exposed to milk produced next.

Penelitiaan was conducted at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Duke University, The researchers acknowledge that further research on groups larger studies are needed to validate their conclusions. Details of the investigation on display on February 28, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Over the last few years, groups of researchers around the world have been using a new type of therapy in curing allergies, and even phobias. In the first example, the developing immune system response that strong when dealing with certain chemicals, or dust, while in the second case, they show a strong response but unfounded, fear response to snakes, spiders or blue planes. With Immune Therapy sublingual / sublingual immune therapy (slit), the children were given very small doses of milk protein, during the period of time. After several days, they are given the increasingly large doses, until their immune systems learn to not react dramatically when exposed to an allergy.

Slit is a therapy based on the human immune system's ability to "learn" and adapt to various chemicals. Other similar approaches to treating allergies is immunotherapy, in which the need to digest milk proteins, not only placed under the tongue. "We are very excited to see that both these approaches can achieve significant improvement in children allergic to milk, but we continue to see slightly better improvement in children who underwent immunotherapy. However, the slit appears as something new, if new slightly less strong, in our warehouse, "said Hopkins, director of Allergy & Immunology, and Robert Wood, MD, principal investigator of this research.

Study Experts say that children who were treated with both therapies tended to show only mild side effects. The most common manifestation of allergy is itching of the throat and mouth, but researchers say that frequency of cases in which children experience symptoms of abdominal breathing and was reduced by both methods.