Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy Post Gastrointestinal Tract Surgeries Among Infants AND Children

Abstract

ow's milk is one of the most common food allergens in children. Recently a Strong association between gastrointestinal surgeries in young age and cow’s milk protein allergy is suspected. The present study aimed to detect the prevalence rate of occurrence of cow’s milk allergy among young children who undergo GIT surgical operations and compare it with other children undergoing simple operations not involving GIT tract as circumcision and inguinal hernia to avoid the bias as well as comparing with healthy Children who did not undergo any surgical operations. Our studied sample comprised 148 infants and children classified into three groups, group I those who had a history of major Gastrointestinal tract surgery done, group II those who had a history of minor surgery and Group III healthy children who had no history of surgery, their age ranged between 2 months to 39 months. We connected with the parents through Telephone call to the parents of children registered at the surgery department who underwent surgical operations at least 3 months ago and this telephone survey was repeated every 3 months for 2 consecutive times to detect evolution of any symptoms related to CMPA, and The other 50 children who didn’t underwent any