For me the biggest problem of this kind of looking at infant feeding is that they throw out the bay with the bathwater, by only looking at the possible prevention of early allergic symptoms (some of those) and forget the hazards of premature introduvtion of solids for the rest of infant health on short and long term.
The Koala study Marijke mentions is focussing mainly on cow's milk allergy. Hardly a health issue (just don't use cow's milk and you won't suffer it), rather an economic issue in a country where dairy farming contitutes a major part of economy.
It is strange, I think, that when asked for reasons to breastfeed, ''preventing allergy'' comes up in the top of the list. How come mom's think that would be the most important thing when considering infant food?
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC in PP< LClecturer in southern Netherlands
--- On Mon, 2/15/10, stillberatung bremen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: stillberatung bremen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Allergy, breastfeeding, solids
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Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 4:31 PM
hi all,
2010/2/15 Marijke Frings <[log in to unmask]>:
> My question?
> Who is also interested in Allergy, breastfeeding and introducing solids?
> If yes,
> What is your vision on introducing solids?
>
> What about the WHO recommendation about introducing solids?
>
> Do you know other publications?
we have the same "problem" here in germany.
the afs published a paper together with other institutions like lll,
the german velb section etc:
<http://www.afs-stillen.de/upload/pdf/Stellungnahme_zum_Thema_Optimaler_Zeitpunkt_Beikosteinfuehrung.pdf>
there are 2 main areas of concern for me: people starting solids on
4month old babys who show no interest in solids, cannot sit upright,
havent lost their tongue-push reflex (in german its called
zungenstreck-reflex...), just arent ready for solids at all... just
because now you're allowed to start at 4 months.
the other thing is, they will wean earlier.
most of the studies i read so far seem to be misunderstood - none of
them talks about a real health advantage for the babys who have to
start early.
and none of them can deny the positive health effects of breastfeeding.
but of course in the public discussion everything is thrown into one
pot and out come articles that claim a start with solids at 6 months
might give your children allergies and breastfeeding for more than 4
months puts your baby at risk of being malnutritioned...
seems like a real big backlash to me.
nina
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