Your healthy toddler suddenly experiences a nasty bout of diarrhea and vomiting, or a severe outbreak of skin rashes or eczema. Your first instinct, after seeking treatment, is to track down the root of the problem and then eliminate it completely from your child’s diet.

You will soon trace the root cause to your toddler’s milk and learn that the problem is known as cow’s milk protein allergy or CMPA.

When parents find out that their toddler is suffering from this common allergy, their immediate response is to forbid him from consuming milk and all milk-based products.

After all, it’s the most obvious solution. But it isn’t the only one. In fact there are two other ways for parents to effectively manage CMPA.

The first, according to the World Journal of Pediatrics is for your child to stop consuming dairy products. Aside from any type of cow’s milk, such products would also include like cheese, yoghurt, butter and pre-mixed cereal containing cow’s milk.

The second method is more ideal – substitute cow’s milk with a soy-based formula. Soy has long been recommended as the best option for toddlers with CMPA and has been closely associated with multiple benefits, which match those of cow’s milk in terms of supporting a child’s growth and development.

A soy-based formula goes a longer way that it’s given credit for. The soy protein isolates provide nine of the 20 amino acids needed by the body, and are also the only plant of equivalent quality to cow's milk, meat and eggs.

In addition, soy is considered a dietary staple as it provides 30% of carbohydrates for energy and is rich in dietary fiber.

And so, after 40 years of being a trusted provider of nutrition to CMPA-afflicted children worldwide, soy-based formulas have been declared a viable, safe and nutritionally complete alternative to cow’s milk.

As a leading soy-based formula, Isomil Plus has stamped its mark as the preferred choice of parents looking to manage CMPA in their toddlers.

Isomil Plus is formulated for children aged 1-10 years old and is designed to replace cow's milk while still providing the nutrients needed for bone mineralisation and healthy growth.

Clinical studies^1-5 have shown that Isomil Plus supports a healthy digestive system, reduces common feeding problems and effectively manages diarrhea. The benefits of Isomil Plus added with DHA and ARA, are well tolerated and enjoyed by children. Isomil Plus helps meet a child’s nutritional and development needs.

As your child nears adolescence, he will eventually outgrow his CMPA and be able to re-introduce milk into his diet upon the doctor’s advice.

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2. Nelson SE, Frantz JA, Ziegler EE. J Am Coll Nutr 1998;17:303-305
3. Heyman MB. Pediatrics. 2006;117:578-585
4. Lasekan JB, Ostrom KM, Jacobs JR, et al. Clin Pediatr 1999;38:563-71
5. Cordle CT. Agro FOOD industry hi-tech. 2007;18(2):27-30

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