Barbara,
You wrote,  "Could it be that when baby's intestine is used to formula
"clogging the pipes," so to speak, that when he has breastmilk the intestinges are
more motile and function normally?"

I don't really know.  My understanding of a newborn's response to just one
sip of infant formula is that there is permanent changes to the gut.  The
patents I have read seem to point in that direction.  The "Pharm woman" patent of
Baylor states that the growth of the intestine is inhibited in mammals when they
are not given their own species-specific milk within the first weeks of life.
 Thus I would assume that all babies not breastfed and those partially
breastfed would have permanent gut damage during the newborn period.  Is this what
the Nestle patent says?  I don't think so.

The Nestle patent seems to be saying that only the breastfed infant has a
toxic inflammatory response to infant formula due to the degradation by-products
of infant formula. Maybe those who wrote this patent up, are in error--maybe
they meant all babies?

I don't know if the situation you describe is the same as what the patent
describes.  It may be part of the inflammatory toxic reaction?  I am not sure
what happens on the cellular level.  I don't know if the situation I saw when I
worked at WIC has any relationship to what the patent describes.  Lots of
questions and no answers that I see.

If this patent represents an accurate assessment of the problem, then this
industry in keeping silent has behaved worse than the tobacco industry. I don't
know, if we will get to the truth of the situation.  It was only after several
lawsuits that the public learned that the tobacco industry had funded farmers
to propagate a tobacco that was highly addictive.  If this situation of
infant formula causing side effects in the breastfed infant is true, then I would
say that this is a new low for an industry that can't get much lower.
Valerie W. McClain, breastfeeding advocate

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