>I am interested in researching lactose intolerance in breast fed
>infants.  If there is information or current management protocols
>available I would be very appreciative.  I am working in a new
>position and have found that many of the breast fed babies
>experience lactose intolerance and must give up breast feeding.  I
>believe there must be a solution to this very common problem in this
>area.   Thanks for your help and looking forward to your
>reply.Louise Harmer, RN, CRNP, IBCLCBrownsville, TX


Is it really common?

I have been working (as a volunteer) in this field for more than 20
years, and currently speak to/meet hundreds of women  a year who are
bf, and I have never come across any baby with lactose intolerance
severe enough to stop bf, even temporarily, though I have read about
a very few cases where bf was suspended with a very sick baby with
temporary LI.

I know most of the babies I come across are not actually ill, and
someone working in a hospital might have a different experience, but
I would have heard more about it, surely? And surely UK babies can't
be that different????!

Or are we just not looking properly?

Curious!!

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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