>Peg Merrill posted:
>
>I caught a short piece on the news last night about research now showing
>that babies deleivered by C-section had much higher rates of milk allergy.
>They were then talking about doing more research into this "unusual
>phenomina".  Now of course we all know that baby's born by C-section are
>much more likely to get formula supplementation in the hospital, thus early
>introduction to cow's milk protein, but the news media weren't making this
>connection at all (at least on the part I heard).  Did anyone else see this
>and get the details of who did the study, etc.  More importanly, any ideas
>as to how to get them to make the connection to early formula use and food
>allergy later?

This study was posted on Medscape news yesterday. That article has the 
details you're looking for and mentions previous work done by these 
researchers. In general, there's some very interesting work that's been 
done on gut microflora colonization in C-sections versus vaginal births.

Sorry I don't have the link to the Medscape article handy. I'm really 
supposed to be working on something else entirely right now or I'd hunt it 
up for you!

HTH.

regards,
Julia

Julia R. Barrett
Freelance Science Writer & Editor
Mom to Sean (5) and Kira (2)
Madison, Wisconsin

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