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.#RobertBoyle clinical reader in paediatric allergy at @imperialcollege is speaking now about Detecting and managing milk allergy in infants. Will look at modern problem of milk allegery overdiagnosis, promotion of overdiagnosis by current guidelines & new approach #bfconf 
@imperialcollege #RoberBoyle: current prescription rates for low-allergy infant formula in England is running about 10 times what would be expected, big increase since about 2005-6. Overreporting for egg and peanut allergry on much, much lower scale. Similar 10 fold excess seen in Norway #bfconf
@imperialcollege #RobertBoyle: In a US study about 7-8% formula sold in 2019 was low allergy formula vs less than 1 % milk allergy rates. Cost for prescription formula to NHS are significant, about a quarter of the money spent on enteral nutrition #bfconf
