Did they do a challenge after the baby's gut cleared? Elimination/diet 
changes are only demonstrated to be relevant when the child regresses 
after a challenge back to the original diet (human milk). Rectal 
bleeding and mucousy stools can occur on and off at random for months 
before totally resolving, so it could have just been cooincidence. 
Arvola et al recommend a challenge for this reason in their study on 
this topic.

I've found a few studies that postulate a t-cell mediated intolerance to 
human milk protein, but they have not demonstrated that this actually 
occurs. We'll have to watch what we learn in the next few years.

Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC  NYC  cwgenna.com


On 6/13/2012 4:02 PM, Emily Samansky wrote:
> I had my son at the allergist this morning and he suggested I wean (for the third time).  This time he told me that he had a mother who was so dedicated to nursing that when her daughter had continued blood and mucus in her stool after months of a total elimination diet, mom herself ingested nothing but Elecare for an entire month.  Baby had continued symptoms, so mom finally agreed to wean and once baby was on Elecare herself, voila, all her symptoms disappeared.  Has anyone heard of something like this?  What would be going on inside baby that this could be possible?  I'm not curious for myself -- our symptoms are enough under control that I would not even consider this.  But I do tend to help LLL moms of allergic babies because I'm the only Leader who has dealt with it on a personal level, so I'm looking to gather knowledge about these rare cases.
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