Goat's milk anaphylaxis in a cow's milk tolerant child

Si Hui Goh; Kok Wee Chong; Wenyin Loh; Anne Eng Neo Goh

doi:10.5415/apallergy.2019.9.e34

Goat's milk anaphylaxis in a cow's milk tolerant child

Asia Pac Allergy. 2019 Oct 17;9(4):e34. doi: 10.5415/apallergy.2019.9.e34. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Si Hui Goh¹, Kok Wee Chong¹, Wenyin Loh¹, Anne Eng Neo Goh¹

Affiliation

¹ Allergy Service, Department of Paediatric Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.

Abstract

Goat's milk (GM) allergy commonly occurs together with cow's milk (CM) allergy due to cross-reactivity between highly homologous proteins. We present an unusual case of GM anaphylaxis in a CM tolerant child.

Keywords: Anaphylaxis; Child; Food hypersensitivity; Milk hypersensitivity.

Publication types

Case Reports