Tag: global formula industry

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine.

For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks old, he screamed when he ate and wouldn’t gain much weight. Arnold brought him to a gastroenterologist, who diagnosed him with allergic proctocolitis—an immune response to the proteins found in certain foods, which she narrowed down to cow’s milk.

Cow’s-milk-protein allergies, or CMPA, might be on the rise—following a similar trend in other children’s