> I did a Dr.Jack and asked for the references
>for temporary lactose intolerance.  He then told me he doesn't have a
>reference nor does he believe all of what he reads and this is
>something that he has observed.  I told him I would do a search.  Now
>my question, any ideas how to educate this MD without alienating
>him??????  Any references that cite that for a newborn, lactose
>intolerance is RARE???

A quirky thought:  Besides getting this fellow info on
oversupply/overswitching (the LC Series unit on it is *great* and will
probably confirm a lot of the "symptoms" he's been seeing!), check with a
vet and see if this condition exists in any mammals of which the vet is
aware.  We are, after all, merely mammals and it's unlikely that a lot of
the stuff we see (spitting up, a need to burp, temporary lactose
intolerance) is unique to humans.  More likely it's problems related to our
cultural bending of biology.

To give this doc his due, he's seeing a "syndrome", and trying to put clues
together.  It would have been pretty amazing if he had come up with
two-sided nursing as a common thread, but he did come up with it being
lactose-related.  He's on the right track...

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY