Hello Virginia
> It's certainly frustrating. And certainly cultural too, our own doc is
> Chinese and his attitude to dairy is quite different. I actually quite
> understand this mother wanting to find an animal milk she could use in
> some cooking - there are so many food items you have to avoid when you
> are avoiding dairy.
> While water buffalo are bovines, they are a different species and their
> milk does seem to have a different composition to your average dairy
> cow's [ <http://www.buffalomilk.co.uk/id20.htm >,
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series7/buffalo_milk.shtml>] .
> I know people who cannot tolerate wheat, but can tolerate the v closely
> related spelt. I think a lot of information for this is anecdotal
> Love
> Helen
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> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:51 AM
> Subject: Terminology (breastmilk is milk)
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>
>> Helen Butler, posted about a baby girl with pasty stools. Helen, it
>> looks as if you provided the support that mother in England needed, for
>> as long as she needed. However, as I read it, the little girl did nicely
>> on *milk*. It was only non-human milks were that were a problem. Why,
>> oh why, does the community think that bovine milk is "milk" and that a
>> baby isn't on milk until non-human milk passes her lips? (Okay, it's
>> cultural, and deeply embedded.) I'm sure you find this frustrating, too.
>>
>> I am curious that the baby has problems with cow's milk but is having
>> buffolo milk, which is also bovine. Do you have more information? Does
>> anyone out there have experience of this? This could be an interesting
>> discussion.
>>
>> New Year resolution on terninology: Breastfeeding is normal. Breastmilk
>> is normal milk. If we refer to cow's milk as just "milk", we are
>> normalising it in the context of young humans. How about in 2009 we make
>> an effort to use the simple term "milk" for the human variety of milk,
>> and label the other types of milk by what they are? Cow's milk, buffolo
>> milk, goat's milk, sheep's milk, manufactured milk. I made this change
>> some time ago. Care about semantics leads to changes in thinking. (Why
>> does this sound radical? It shouldn't.)
>>
>> Update:
>> Yes, I'm still in a nursing home, very slowly healing. Rehab is still a
>> few weeks away. I'm thankful to have my laptop and a wireless internet
>> connection, and I can continue my writing. I am in the process of
>> thanking individually the very kind members of Lactnet who have sent me
>> heart-warming messages for my recovery. These messages have meant a lot
>> to me.
>> Warm regards,
>> Virginia
>>
>> Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
>> Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
>>
>
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