What If You Are Allergic To Milk?
By Novi White, Thu Dec 8th

How often you drink milk? Do you feel something strange afteryou had your milk? Probably you don’t think that milk can causeyou since this liquid is good for your health. Itcontains very rich nutrition and it’s good for everybody. Butwhat if you are allergic to milk?

What a question. Well, milk is one of a number of typesof food allergy. As the same with others, milk resultsfrom a hypersensitivity of the body’s immune system. In thiscase, to the proteins comprised in cow’s milk. Indeed, cow’smilk is one of the most frequent food allergens.

Food allergens? Yes, allergens are particular substances thatcan cause reactions in the body. Milk is one of the mostcommon foods responsible for food beside egg, peanut,fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.

A person with milk will show specific symptoms, whichcan occur within minutes or hours after consuming the milk.These symptoms can be obvious in the skin, the digestive system,and or the respiratory system. What Reaction Occur when YouAllergic to Milk?

The reactions of milk in the skin may include swellingof lips, tongue, mouth, face or throat, as well as an itchy redrash. In the meantime, vomiting,

stomach cramps, and diarrheaare some of the reactions found in the digestive system. If yousee running nose, sneezing, watery eyes, or shortness of breath,this means the reactions also occur in the respiratory system.

Again, there are still no medications to cure allergy. The onlykey to prevent symptoms of any is to avoid theallergens. In the case of milk allergy, a person with thisallergy of course should stay away from foods containing cow’smilk protein because even a very small quantity of milk proteinmay trigger symptoms. This will surely make a very uncomfortablecondition.

If a person with milk is worried about not gettingsufficient nutrition for the body, there’s always a way to solveit. The important thing is to consume an adequate amount ofcalcium as milk’s substitute. Seafood, green vegetables(spinach, broccoli), and fish (salmon, sardines) are greatsources of calcium.

You can find products related to milk and those thatsupport the absorption of calcium on the Internet. This iscertainly a perfect way to compare many products.

About the author:Novi White writes health articles on various publications. Shehas been working with doctors for their research publications.You can visit her Website MyAllergyGuide.com at http://www.myallergyguide.com