Abstract

COW MILK PROTEIN ALLERGY – AN AYURVEDIC VIEW

Sharma Sujata*, Dangwal Avdesh and Pandey Reena

ABSTRACT

This review summarize current evidence and recommendations regarding cow milk allergy (CMPA), the most common food allergy in young children, for the parents. CMPA is a common condition encountered in children with incidence estimated as 2% to 7.5% in the first year of life. It is important to accurately diagnose CMPA to avoid the consequences of either under- or over diagnosis. CMPA is classically categorized into immunoglobulin E (IgE)- or non-IgE-mediated reaction that vary in clinical manifestations, diagnostic evaluation, and prognosis. The most commonly involved systems in patients with CMPA are gastrointestinal, skin, and respiratory. Treatment is simply by avoidance of cow's milk protein (CMP) in the child's or mother's diet, if exclusively breast-feeding. In ayurveda classics it is pointed out that cow’s milk is vaman, virechan, aasthapnam, saram, abhisyandi,. In classics, it has been mentioned that cow milk should always processed with laghu panchmoola before it is consumed.

Keywords: CMPA, aasthapnam, saram, abhisyandi, laghu panchmoola.