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Article: Allergy to goat, sheep milk, but not cow, is due to greater casein homology.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 21, 2004
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2004 JAN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Goat and sheep milk caseins are more homologous, thus allergy to these milks can exist without cow milk allergy.
"Allergy to goat and sheep's milk without allergy to cow's milk is rare, and was only reported recently. Here we report observations on 18 children who were presented with a history of severe allergic symptoms after ingestion of goat cheese and sheep cheese but who were able to tolerate products made with cow's milk," researchers in France report.
"A convincing clinical history and positive skin and serological test results confirmed the diagnosis of allergy to goat and sheep's milk. Alpha s1 and ...