Most Children Will Outgrow Milk and Egg Allergies

by KYW's medical editor Dr. Brian McDonough

If you are a parent who has a child or children with food allergies it can be tough. You need to be vigilant and you have to deal with the fact that many people are not as aware of the situation as you are, or even worse, not accepting. But there is some good news - at least for milk and eggs.

According to researchers at Johns Hopkins, most people do eventually outgrow their allergies to these foods. The old notion that if you hadn’t outgrown your allergy by a certain age the die was cast and it would never happen is incorrect. The Hopkins researchers found that  they had large numbers who are still outgrowing their allergies into adolescence and adulthood, so the final numbers still showed that 80 to 90% of milk and egg allergies are outgrown, it’s just you don’t hit that 80 to 90% mark until age 16, 17, or 18. So perhaps when children reach college their milk and egg allergies will be a thing of the past.