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The Effect of Early Childhood Cow's Milk Allergy Elimination Diet on Eating Behaviors, Nutrition, and Growth Status

NCT04576845 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2020-10-06

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Summary

Cow's milk allergy (CMA) is the most common Food Allergy (FA) in children, and the essential strategy in prevention is avoiding the allergens that may cause potentially life-threatening reactions.

The primary developmental task of early childhood is the creation of healthy eating habits. The diagnosis of FA in this period can lead to permanent changes in the life of the child and her family. In early childhood, parents are often responsible for all aspects of FA management because children are too young to understand the complexity of avoiding allergens. Children often do not have the skills to implement FA management. Parents are advised to follow a special weaning diet, avoiding any type of cow's milk, usually at least 1 year old. However, depending on the clinical improvement, it can be recommended to continue this exclusion diet for much longer. Thus, many children have to exclude a large group of food from their diets, which is critical for their growth, development, and eating habits. This may raise mealtime behavioral anxiety in a child with a FA.

Eating behavioral anxieties are also very common in healthy, typically developing children. Even 25% to 45% of normally developing children's parents report concerns about their child's nutritional and mealtime behaviors, including the destructive child behaviors (eg., refusal of foods, food selectivity, and getting off the table).

In children with food allergies, monitoring long-term growth after the diet is another important issue. Growth problems were reported in 21% of children with FA diagnosed with malnutrition. Most studies focused on the effect of changes in eating behavior on growth during an elimination diet or in short term intervals. Its long-term effects have only been analyzed in a few studies. We aimed to investigate the eating behaviors, nutritional status, and growth of young children (ages of 2 to 6) who had a strict diet due to CMA in early childhood (ages of 0-2).

Conditions

  • Nutrient Deficiency
  • Eating Behavior
  • Cow Milk Allergy
  • Growth Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

Survey

The children's eating behavior will be evaluated with Turkish validated Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire - (CEBQ) by interviewing mothers face to face. The CEBQ is a Likert type, parent-report rating scale measuring the variation in eating behavior in children. The CEBQ consists of 35 items comprising eight subscales, each containing 3 to 6 items. Parents will be asked to rate their child's eating behavior on a five-point scale (never, rarely, sometimes, often, always; 1-5, respectively).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-12
Primary Completion
2020-11-13
Completion
2020-11-13

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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