Originally published January 17 2006
Research discovers camel's milk can help childhood allergies
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Israel Medical Association Journal has published a study conducted in Beersheba that found camel's milk can cure severe food allergies and improve impaired immune systems in children.
Camel's milk cures severe food allergies and rehabilitates the immune system in children, according to the results of a small study in Beersheba.
Since it involved only eight children - all of whom recovered from their serious allergies after a short course of drinking the milk - the researchers have applied for approval for a much larger study to Soroka-University Medical Center.
It was the proteins in camel's milk that were most significant in preventing and curing food allergies, the authors added, because it contained no beta-lactoglobulin and a different beta-casein - the two components in cow's milk that trigger allergies.
In mild cases, food allergies can cause skin reactions, but some are so severe that they can cause anaphylactic shock within minutes, or as delayed as two hours, that could be fatal.
A minority of young children are subject to such severe food allergies, which develop when the immune system reacts to the protein in the milk and other foods as a "threat" to the body, activating the immune system to protect it as though from a pathogen.
The parents of eight children ranging in age from four months to 10 years who suffered from severe food allergies and did not respond to conventional treatments came to the doctors for advice.
The symptoms included skin rashes, lactase deficiency, chemical imbalance and asthma symptoms.
The parents were given frozen camel's milk from a hygienic source and were told to defrost rather than heat it because heat would destroy the protective immunoglobulins and proteins.
The authors noted that one problem preventing widespread use is that camel's milk cannot be pasteurized to kill pathogens, as heat destroys many of the beneficial components.
If it can save lives and prevent disability, however, rabbis might consider it like medication and allow its consumption in specific cases.
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