I'm becoming increasingly frustrated about this issue. several times I've
heard these stories:

*baby with blood in stool, otherwise healthy and happy. Mother concerned,
goes to docter, people advice her to eliminate dairy, and other allergenic
products, mother has problems with keeping up her weigth, feels week,
baby's bloody stools  doesn't improve. Ped put the baby on formula to do
blank testing. Mother pumps and dump. Mother cannot keep up with pumping,
and quits. Baby is 8 mo. Result from testing: no allergy.

*baby from a few weeks old, extremely colicky, eczema. One suspects
allergy. Mother on hypoallergenic diet, results are confusing. Baby
balances between  happy to colicky. Mother looses weigth rapidly, feels
week and gets ill. Het milk production decreases rapidly. Baby put on HA
formula and improves.

I'm becoming more and more resistant to recommend a restriction diet. Too
often it leads to weaning. Only when a mother is very committed to do it,
it will work. Otherwise it's too hard for most women.

There are several case reports about the positive results of a restriction
diet. However on the other hand I hear people saying that the amount of
proteins that enter the  milk is usually extremely low. This makes me
hesistant to recommend it to women. I'm afraid to to suggest such a hard
restricton diet unnecessarily.

does anyone has ideas about it? Dealing with this dilemma too?

Annelies Bon  http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/abon/bfbronnen.html
breastfeeding counsellor of the Dutch bf org "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"
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ICQ: 11791280

Annelies Bon         http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/abon/bfbronnen.html
ICQ: 11791280