Breastfeeding improves growth in babies with cow's milk protein allergy: Study
A new study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine showed that studies with low confidence indicated that pectin-based thickened amino acid-based formula (TAAF) could lower the Scoring Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) index.
Over the past 40 years, cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA) has become more common in industrialized nations. Concurrently, atopic dermatitis (AD) manifests early in childhood, with an incidence of 9.6% and a prevalence of almost 20% among newborns and children in Westernized nations. Atopy and AD in the family have long been known to be risk factors for CMPA, and a significant percentage of newborns with CMPA also have early and severe AD.
In order to lower the Scoring Atopic Dermatitis score and encourage growth in newborns with cow milk protein allergy, Tengfei Li and colleagues undertook this study to assess the efficacy of different formulas and the capacity of nursing without cow milk protein.
The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, ClinicalTrials.gov, WanFang Data, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Weipu, and the China Biomedical Literature Database were all thoroughly searched by investigators. The time frame for the search was from each database's launch to December 2023 (with an update until January 15, 2025). For babies with cow's milk protein allergies, they considered randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared formulas and nursing.
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