Statistics
Milk allergy is the most common food allergy in early childhood. It affects somewhere between 2% and 3% of infants in developed countries, but approximately 85–90% of affected children lose clinical reactivity to milk once they surpass 3 years of age. The prevalence of milk allergy in adults is between 0.1% and 0.5%.
Between 13% and 20% of children allergic to milk are also allergic to beef.
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