Excerpt:
Rising allergies trend mystifying
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22766666-23289,00.html

An explosion in numbers of children with serious food allergies has
bewildered experts and parents, writes Helen Francombe | November 17, 2007 

WHEN all Natalie Fine could see of her hospitalised six-month-old baby,
Lucas, was a small pair of eyes peering out from head-to-toe bandaging, she
couldn't help wondering what she had done wrong. She certainly didn't
imagine soy-based formula -- recommended by her paediatrician after problems
with a dairy-based formula -- could be the cause of his severe eczema,
infected and requiring IV antibiotics.
"When I was told he had a soy allergy I felt terrible -- as if I had been
poisoning him with the formula," says Fine. Lucas was also found to have a
severe allergy to egg white, and his mother was warned that if he came in
contact with egg he could have an anaphylactic reaction -- the most severe
manifestation of allergy which can cause swelling of the throat, difficulty
breathing, a fall in blood pressure and, in some cases, death.


Comment:
My infant niece on soy formula nearly died from her allergic reaction and
was put back on dairy formula instead.  Until she outgrew this allergy, her
parents had to read all labels and ask if there was any--even soy oil--in
prepared foods.   

This URL says all soy formula is now GMO formula.  We were informed of this
by Valerie McClain also.
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/02gmsoy.htm
GMO soy has now risen to 91% of soy grown in the US market.  It has never
really been tested on humans.
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/agri_biotechnology/gmo_planting/283.usa_culti
vations_2007.html

http://tinyurl.com/2znngj

Judy Ritchie

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