It stated that an infant may be exposed to
>peanuts and traces thereof much earlier than once thought as it is excreeted
>into the breast milk approximately 2 hours after the mother consumes peanut
>butter or the like.  It sent a warning specifically about high risk children
>... those whose mother and/or father have nut allergies

Why would a breastfeeding mother who has a nut allergy be eating peanut
butter anyway?

We certainly know that proteins of certain foods can be transmitted through
breastmilk. And this is usually a problem when the mother has an allergy or
"sensitivity" to the food, known or unknown. So avoiding the food benefits
the infant and mother as well.

I have had numerous clients who, after going off a food that distresses her
infant, finds that her spring or fall allergies are lessened or her eczema
is gone or she has more energy in the mornings or her stuffy nose and
recurring sinus infections are no longer with her.

However, it sounds as if the "news" has taken a "breastfeeding warning"
approach, not to any of our surprise. "If peanuts in a breastfeeding
mother's diet could harm her infant, whatever is she supposed to feed her
baby????"

Mass media, with its total existence dependent on commercial advertising,
will never be a friend to breastfeeding or any other aspect of health.
Unfortunately the passive public believes everything that they hear on this
big invasive eye.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin



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