The controversial role of food allergy in infantile colic: Evidence and clinical management

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2015-2025

  Nocerino, Rita ^a   Pezzella, Vincenza ^a   Cosenza, Linda ^a   Amoroso, Antonio ^a   Di Scala, Carmen ^a   Amato, Francesco ^a   Iacono, Giuseppe ^b   Canani, Roberto Berni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ARNAS Civico Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atopy patch test; Cow s milk allergy; Hypoallergenic formulas; Intestinal microbiota; Nutrition; Oral food challenge; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATOPY; BREAST MILK; CARIOGENIC DIET; DIET; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSBIOSIS; FOOD ALLERGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANTILE COLIC; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MILK ALLERGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKIN PRICK TEST; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BREAST FEEDING; COLIC; COMPLICATION; DIET THERAPY; IMMUNOLOGY; MILK;

ANIMALS; BREAST FEEDING; COLIC; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; MILK; MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 84982728692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7032015     Document Type: Review

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