Hi Eszter

I've just found the article I referred to. I didn't throw it away, I'm thankful to say!  The article was in Acta Paediatrica in 1997.  It was not an American case study, but a French one.  (I recall that some of my Lactnet colleagues said that "no one" would order allergy tests for a number of foods in the US because of costs.)

You may be able to find Acta Paediatrica in your library.  The details are:

de Boissieu D, Matarazzo P, Rocchiccioli F, Dupont C. Multiple food allergy: a possible diagnosis in breastfed infants. Acta Paediatr 1997;86:1042-1046.

There were 6 breastfed infants, with symptoms suggestive of allergy (to breast milk components), i.e. vomiting, colic, dairrhoea and/or eczema.  Three of them had never received any cow's milk protein - I assume that means as a supplement. (More detail in the actual article.)  Food sensitivities identified were: cow's milk protein, egg, fish, cocoa, apple, wheat, soy, peanut, tomato, celery.  Only two of the infants had shown any improvement when cow's milk protein was eliminated from the mother's diet.  The message was that a) food sensitivies to substances in mother's milk could be *multiple* and that b) if eliminating cow's milk protein from the mother's diet didn't stop the symptoms, that didn't rule out sensitivity to foods in her diet.

Virginia
Private practice lactation consultant
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
where the birds are singing in the park across the road.

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