>I agree, the article doesn't give reference of the research, doesn't say if
>these were exclusively bfed infants, and doesn't say what to feed the baby if
>you take their advice and quit bfing.  It says mom should not eat milk, soy,
>peanut butter, etc. if she continues to bfed, so I guess they wouldn't
>recommend to fed the baby milk or soy.  What's then to fed the baby, rice
>milk?  I'ld like to know where the source and reference to this is.


I think it's the following article. I posted this a couple of weeks before.

the researchers are respected in the bf field


>>>J Allergy Clin Immunol 1999 Sep;104(3 Pt 1):589-594
>>>
>>>Breast-feeding, maternal IgE, and total serum IgE in childhood.
>>>Wright AL, Sherrill D, Holberg CJ, Halonen M, Martinez FD
>>>Respiratory Sciences Center, Arizona Health Sciences Center, the
>>>Department of
>>>Pediatrics and Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, the Arizona
>>>Prevention Center, and the Department of Pharmacology, University of
>>>Arizona.
>>>[Record supplied by publisher]
>>>
>>>BACKGROUND: There is controversy regarding the relationship of the effect of
>>>breast-feeding on markers of allergy such as total serum IgE in childhood.
>>>OBJECTIVE: This study, using longitudinal data, tested the hypothesis that
>>>the
>>>relation of breast-feeding to IgE in childhood differs depending on maternal
>>>total IgE level.
>>>METHODS: Total serum IgE was assessed with the paper
>>>radioimmunosorbent test at 4 ages in nonselected children enrolled at
>>>birth into
>>>the prospective Tucson Children's Respiratory Study. Children were
>>>classified as
>>>never breast-fed, breast-fed less than 4 months, or breast-fed 4 months or
>>>longer, on the basis of physician report or questionnaires completed by
>>>parents
>>>by the time the child was 18 months old. A longitudinal random effects
>>>model was
>>>used to test for group differences and temporal trends in IgE for children
>>>classified with reference to maternal IgE (high tertile vs all others) and
>>>breast-feeding history. A total of 664 children with 1457 observations were
>>>included.
>>>RESULTS: Among children whose mothers were in the 2 lower tertiles of
>>>IgE, breast-feeding was associated with lower total serum IgE at age 6 years
>>>(24.2 vs 44.3 IU/mL for never breast-fed children; P <.02); similar trends
>>>existed at age 11 years. In contrast, for children whose mothers were in the
>>>highest tertile of IgE, breast-feeding of 4 months or longer was
>>>associated with
>>>higher IgE levels in the child compared with those never breast-fed or
>>>breast-fed less than 4 months (97.0 vs 38.9 IU/mL; P <.005). These
>>>cross-sectional analyses were confirmed with the longitudinal random effects
>>>model, which also showed no effect of confounders. Paternal IgE showed no
>>>similar relation with child IgE.
>>>CONCLUSION: Breast-feeding appears to have
>>>paradoxic relations with IgE in childhood, depending on maternal IgE level.
>>>These findings may help explain the contradictory results found in other
>>>investigations of the relation of breast-feeding to allergic symptoms and
>>>markers.
>>>PMID: 10482832

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