Colic and Food Allergy in the Breastfed Infant: Is It Possible for an Exclusively Breastfed Infant to Suffer From Food Allergy?

IgE-mediated cow milk allergy and infantile colic: diagnostic and management challenges

“…Many lactation consultants, paediatricians and family physicians nowadays advocate maternal elimination diets to maintain the benefits of breastfeeding in infants who present with colic 6. This approach is supported by a few studies suggesting a significant difference between cry and fuss time at baseline versus during exclusive neocate or nutramigen use 7 8.…”

Probiotics to prevent infantile colic

“…Intact proteins from a mother's diet can sometimes cross over into the breast milk, provoking an allergic response and symptoms of colic in her infant. Consequently, a low-allergen maternal diet or hypoallergenic infant formula have been proposed as a form of treatment (Hill 2005;Iacovou 2012;Schach 2002). Shannon 1921 first described the possibility of a relationship between infantile colic and allergens, and since then, a number of studies have evaluated the possible association between colic and food hypersensitivity (Heine 2013;Heine 2014;Hill 1995;Iacono 1991;Lothe 1982;Merras-Salmio 2013;Saps 2011).…”

Parent training programmes for managing infantile colic

“…Intact proteins from the mother's diet can sometimes cross over into the breast milk and provoke an allergic response and symptoms of colic in her infants. Consequently, a low-allergen maternal diet, or hypoallergenic infant formula (Iacovou 2012), has been proposed as a form of treatment (Hill 2005;Schach 2002). The possibility that infantile colic could be related to allergens was first described by .…”