Infant Formula in Infants and Children With Cow's Milk Allergy
Abbott Nutrition · NCT06456541
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Key facts
- Compensation
- Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
- Who can join
- Ages 4 mo–12 · All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted (a condition is required)
- Study type
- Interventional · Not applicable
- Target enrollment
- 96
- US sites recruiting
- 8
- Study start
- October 1, 2024
- Record last updated
- October 15, 2026
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What the study is about
This is a multi-center, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled food challenge to be conducted in infants and children with confirmed IgE-mediated cow's milk allergy (CMA), followed by a 7-day open feeding of the experimental formula.
Being studied: Experimental Extensively Hydrolyzed Formula; Placebo Extensively Hydrolyzed Formula
Conditions: Cow's Milk Allergy
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
- Participant's parent(s) is/are willing for their child to undergo confirmatory testing or must have had at least one of the following within 6 months of enrollment:
- Physician diagnosis of IgE-mediated CMA, according to the participant's clinical history (e.g. gastrointestinal symptoms, hives, respiratory symptoms or angioedema) AND, detectable serum milk-specific IgE >0.7 kUᴀ/L or positive skin prick test wheal ≥5 mm;
- Documentation of milk-specific serum IgE ≥15 kUᴀ/L or ≥ 5 kUᴀ/L if younger than 1 year;
- Documented cow's milk skin prick test wheal ≥8mm;
- Physician-supervised oral food challenge that elicited immediate, objective, allergic symptoms.
- Participant's parent(s) agree for their child to stop oral steroid use within 14 days and antihistamine use within 7 days prior to confirmation of diagnosis and food challenges.
- Participant had followed a strict cow's milk protein-free diet for at least 2 weeks prior to enrollment.
- Parent(s) confirm their intention not to administer any products containing cow's milk protein during the study.
- Participant is between 3 months and 12 years of age at enrollment.
- Participant's parent(s) has voluntarily signed and dated an Informed Consent Form (ICF), approved by an Independent Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board (IEC/IRB) and provided Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (or other applicable privacy regulation) authorization prior to any participation in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
- Participant is partially or exclusively breastfed at the time of enrollment.
- Participant is consuming an amino acid-based formula due to failure on an extensively hydrolyzed formula.
- Significant chronic medical diseases including major chromosomal or congenital anomalies, gastrointestinal diseases, or abnormalities other than CMA, immunodeficiencies, unstable asthma, eczema and/or food allergies treated with biologics (omalizumab or other monoclonal antibody), FPIES, eosinophilic esophagitis, and severe uncontrolled eczema.
- Previous severe anaphylactic reaction to cow's milk within the last two years.,
- An adverse medical history or current condition that is thought by the investigator to have potential for effects on tolerance or the hypoallergenicity test.
- Participant has an allergy or intolerance to any ingredient in the study product, as reported by the parent.
- Participant is consuming baked milk products.
- Use of and/or changing dose of high potency steroids.
- Participant is treated with any oral immunotherapy (sublingual, subcutaneous, and epicutaneous) for any food allergy.
Recruiting US locations
Phoenix Children's
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60611
University of Michigan Food Allergy Clinic
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH 44195
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH 43205
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX 75207
Study contacts (from the official record)
- Kristen DeLuca · 6145653522 · kristen.deluca@abbott.com
- Jane Schlezinger · +44 (0) 1628 77355 · jane.schlezinger@abbott.com