Dear Friends:
    Babies are not lactose intolerant as that situation is incompatible with
life; adult humans may be. Babies that can not digest lactose have
galactosemia, an incredibly rare inborn error of metabolism. There are only about 50
cases in the literature.
    Lacto-free formula was developed to sell formula to folks that think
their baby's fussiness/colic/GI symptoms will be resolved by its use. The only
study about Lacto-free found that babies had just as much fussiness/colic/GI
symptoms with Lacto-free as they did on other formulas.
    What babies react to that makes for colic or GI distress is protein, not
sugar.
    The evidence points to cow milk protein as being the first item in the
mother's diet to cause a problem for a baby.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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