Only amino acid-based formulas as Neocate are suitable for the treatment of all types of Cow Milk Allergy, from mild-moderate to severe. In this type of alternative hypoallergenic formula, proteins are broken down into their simplest and purest elements, the amino acids.

Amino acids, the buolding blocks of proteins, have two properties that are essentials for the health of your allergic child: they are hypoallergenics, least likely to cause an allergic response, and they are the easiest elements to be digested and absorbed by the body, thus they ensure your baby all the nutrients he needs. Formulas based on pure, non-milk derived amino acids are always effective.

Amino acid-based formulas play a key role in the dietary management of infants with a variety of diseases: they provide complete nutritional support and are proven safe for use in severely allergic infants who cannot tolerate soy formulas or protein hydrolyzed formulas this is not proven for other hydrolyzed protein-based formulas).

Cow Milk Allergy symptoms may start improving after 3-5 days of taking an amino acid-base formula (AAF) although many children take longer to see improvements. Most children tend to improve within two weeks.
In particular, most of the gastrointestinal symptoms regress in just 3 days; other symptoms - including cutaneous disorders as eczema and atopic dermatitis – relief in 14 days, even in extremely sensitive babies.

There are many scientific studies assessing that babies, with suspected Cow Milk Allergy and persistent symptoms on extensively hydrolysed protein formulas who were given an amino acid-based formula, start improving symptoms:

• in one experiment, all infants stabilised on amino acid-based formula resulted in the resolution of symptoms and weight gain, in complete remission within 2 weeks of using amino acid-based formula. Moreover, infants with poor growth caused by food protein hypersensitivity were able to achieve normal growth during a rich diet of amino acid-based formula feeding;
  
  
• another experiment studied the effectiveness of an amino acid-based formula eaten by infants with symptoms suggestive of the formula protein allergy; whilst they were receiving an extensively hydrolysed formula (eHF). The infants with Cow Milk Allergy described in this article did not ameliorate to a casein hydrolized formula (cHF) and required an amino acid-based formula to resolve their symptoms.

 

In conclusion, use of amino acid-based formula as Neocate in children with Cow Milk Allergy helps to reach faster diagnosis (with reduced need to monitor and investigate) and permits a speedier resolution of symptoms. Exclusive feeding with amino acid-based formula has also been shown to be the most effective way of treating eosinophilic esophagitis.