When both parents are allergic, the odds are the baby will also experience
atopic diseases.  Human milk (if mother's diet is cleaned up) is a safer
than the alternatives.  I would consider talking to an environmental
allergist (generally there are people with this speciality in major medical
centers in big cities.)  It may be that something else in the environment is
exacerbating the problem by stressing the child's body burden.  I have
posted before about a baby I worked with who developed eczema at 4 mo when
rice cereal was introduced, and had weeping lesions on face and body for
many months (with everyone on very spartan diet) until an environmental
allergist discovered that the baby had a severe reaction to carpet fumes.
The family ripped out all the carpet from home and car, and baby got much
better.  He was able to tolerate more varieties of foods and mom was able to
re-introduce foods to her own diet that he formerly reacted to in her milk
once the offending environmental stressor was withdrawn.  She was repeatedly
advised to wean, and I told her I believed that this was unwise given the
few sources of comfor the baby had to depend on.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates
LactNews Press
www.lactnews.com

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