ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T66-T78 › T78.11 Other adverse food reactions due... › T78.119
Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- T78.119A Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, initial encounter
- T78.119D Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, subsequent encounter
- T78.119S Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2026 to now.
- FY2026 Added to the code set Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with baked milk tolerance/reactivity, unspecified
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from T78 Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T78
Excludes2 - not included here
- complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
Inherited from the T66-T78 section Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
Code also
- , if applicable, place of occurrence, such as:
- highway rest stop (Y92.523)
- school (private) (public) (state) as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.21-)
- service areas as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.52-)
- single-family non-institutional (private) house as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.01-)
- transport vehicle as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.81-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Disorder > allergic
- Hypersusceptibility
- Reaction > allergic
- Sensitive, sensitivity
- Hypersensitive, hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity
- Allergy, allergic > dairy products
- Allergy, allergic > milk protein > adverse reaction NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T78.110 | Other adverse food reactions due to milk and dairy products with tolerance to baked milk | Not billable |
| T78.111 | Other adverse food reaction due to milk and dairy products with reactivity to baked milk | Not billable |