Joy says,

> but in my experience, one of the commonest causes of
> colic is 'oversupply', 'OALD', 'foremilk/hindmilk imbalance',
> 'functional lactase deficiency' or whatever you want to call it. To
> the mothers, I call it 'too much milk, too fast'!
>

But, IMO, then the baby does NOT have colic.  Colicky "behavior" perhaps, but
not colic.  The baby is suffering from the results of "oversupply" OALD"
'foremilk/hindmilk imbalance' whatever -- but not colic.  Colic is an entity
for which there is no known cause and no known cure.  If it's one of the
above, then it isn't colic.  If it is cow's milk protein sensitivity, then it
isn't colic.  If it's a stuffy nose, then it isn't colic.  Calling all these
things colic is like putting all infant deaths at night into a basket and
labeling it SIDS.  If the baby suffocated from too many bedclothes then it
died of suffocation, not SIDS.  If no known cause is found, then it can be
determined that it died of SIDS.  Both colic and SIDS (though certainly one
is far more severe than the other) are diagnoses of exclusion.  If you can
fix it (through eliminating the foremilk/hindmilk imbalance, or taking dairy
protein out of mom's diet, or whatever) then it isn't colic.....

I think we make colic too simplistic...."Oh, MY child had colic, and we just
took dairy out of my diet and it went away."  No, your child had a
sensitivity to cow's milk protein, not colic.

So I agree w/ Kate.  Colic is NOT the result of overfeeding.  In fact, when
they have done fluoroscopies on babies suffering from "colic" there was no
difference in the distention or gut motility of those babies than there were
in babies that didn't have colic.

It boils down to -- we don't know what colic really is.

Jan in Wheaton still fighting the good fight

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