[Guideline Summary] An update to the Milk Allergy in Primary Care

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[Guideline Summary] An update to the Milk Allergy in Primary Care

Since first published in 2013, the Milk Allergy in Primary Care (MAP) guideline aims to provide simple and accessible data for UK primary care clinicians, detailing care process from initial presentation through diagnosis, management and tolerance development.

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Summary

This updated report addresses the criticisms received in 2018 around the guideline due to 3 distinct reasons:

  1. Promotion of overdiagnosis of cow’s milk allergy (CMA)
  2. Negative impact on breastfeeding
  3. Possibility of industry influence on the guideline

Link to the full article: https://ctajournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13601-019-0281-8

Reference

Fox A, Brown T, Walsh J, Venter C, Meyer R, Nowak-Wegrzyn A, Levin M, Spawls H, Beatson J, Lovis M, Vieira M, Fleischer D. An update to the Milk Allergy in Primary Care guideline. Clinical and Translational Allergy. 2019;9:40.

Other online article that you might be interested in:

Guideline Summary – The American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on Allergy Prevention in Infants and Children

WYE-EM-318-OCT-19

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