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Thanks Pam (and everyone else who has responded). My basic understanding is as people have written but it's the more technical explanation that I am looking for. I find it a bit surprising that it would be so seemingly difficult to find!
Karleen Gribble
Australia
On 17/01/2015, at 9:44 PM, Pamela Morrison wrote:
> Karleen
>
> Have you read Maureen Minchin's books, Nursing Matters and Food for
> Thought? And I believe there will be another one out soon which I'm
> _very eager_ to read....
>
> Just very crudely, I understand that the infant gut is porous for the
> first 4 months of life, and if exposed to "foreign" proteins
> (anything other than breastmilk) then these proteins can be absorbed
> into the bloodstream where they can set up a sensitivity which can
> last for life. If such an infant grows up to be a nursing mother who
> is herself sensitive to a particular kind of protein - say - peanuts
> - she can then secrete peanut proteins in her milk where they can
> sensitize the baby. If, however, she eliminates peanuts from her
> diet, particularly before the baby's own gut closure would normally
> occur, at about 16-17 weeks, then the baby will not be exposed, and
> will not show sensitivity to the same proteins as an adult. The
> protein that we in the western world are so over-exposed to too early
> is of course cow's milk, because so few of us have been exclusively
> breastfed for the recommended period of the first 6 months of
> life. I think I read that Maureen believes that a sensitivity to
> bovine proteins could be eliminated in two generations if a mother
> exclusively breastfeeds her daughter, and that daughter exclusively
> breastfeeds her own daughter.
>
> Of course, this could be a completely off-the-wall mish-mash of
> misunderstanding! And I too would welcome a really technical
> explanation, with refs :-)
>
> Pamela Morrison IBCLC
> Rustington, England
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