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Date: | Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:24:54 +0100 |
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> I did a Dr.Jack and asked for the references
>for temporary lactose intolerance. He then told me he doesn't have a
>reference nor does he believe all of what he reads and this is
>something that he has observed. I told him I would do a search. Now
>my question, any ideas how to educate this MD without alienating
>him?????? Any references that cite that for a newborn, lactose
>intolerance is RARE???
A quirky thought: Besides getting this fellow info on
oversupply/overswitching (the LC Series unit on it is *great* and will
probably confirm a lot of the "symptoms" he's been seeing!), check with a
vet and see if this condition exists in any mammals of which the vet is
aware. We are, after all, merely mammals and it's unlikely that a lot of
the stuff we see (spitting up, a need to burp, temporary lactose
intolerance) is unique to humans. More likely it's problems related to our
cultural bending of biology.
To give this doc his due, he's seeing a "syndrome", and trying to put clues
together. It would have been pretty amazing if he had come up with
two-sided nursing as a common thread, but he did come up with it being
lactose-related. He's on the right track...
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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