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COW'S MILK IDIOSYNCRASY IN INFANTS
Author(s) -
VENDEL STEPHAN,
WALLGREN HEAD PROFESSOR ARVID
Publication year - 1948
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1948.tb07111.x
Subject(s) - idiosyncrasy , medicine , pediatrics , cow milk , clinical practice , family medicine , food science , finance , economics , chemistry
Summary In the period 1919—1947 a total of 23 clinically definite cases of cow's milk idiosyncrasy were treated at the 4 children's hospitals of Stockholm. This series of cases, supplemented by one case from private practice in Stockholm, is surveyed and attention is directed to an unusual symptom to which earlier authors have not attached any great significance, namely the very varying interval of time between exposure and allergic reaction. 1 It is found that this allergic period of latency is as a rule individually constant and that therefore with this basis of classification it is possible to present the 24 cases so that their other clinical symptoms fall naturally into two distinct clinical types. These two types agree with the classification of cow's milk idiosyncrasy which von Sydow, on other grounds, has proposed.