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Barbara Wilson-Clay <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:12:35 -0500
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I am forwarding this for Kay Hoover, who is not on Lactnet, who asks for
help for this mother.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates, Austin, Texas
http://www.jump.net/~bwc/lactnews.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Hoover <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 09:14 PM
Subject: allergy


>Barbara,
>I am not on lactnet.
>Could you post this for the mother?
>Kay
>
>Subject:
>        food-induced entercolitis
>  Date:
>        Sun, 19 Sep 1999 07:45:56 -0700
>  From:
>        "Karen Erika" <[log in to unmask]>
>    To:
>        <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>Dear Kay Hoover -
>
>Nikki Lee is going on vacation and suggested I contact you for more
>input and to see if you would be willing to
>post my daughters case on LACTNET.  Natalie was diagnosed with
>food-induced enterocolitis/eosinophilic
>gastroenteritis, she is 13 weeks old.  Her symptoms included hysterics
>at the breast (not fussiness), graduating
>to crying a lot after eating and decreased eating at all on the breast
>and 4 bloody stools.
>
>All the resources I have tapped (including LLL locally and nationally,
>my local Lactation Consultants, Dr.
>Woods at Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Sampson at Mt. Sinai) have not been able
>to clarify this illness so that we
>can get back to breastfeeding.  I found only 2 related articles through
>the Food Allergy Network, no other
>research through the Internet regarding infants.
>
>Natalie has been on Nutramigen for 8 days now (I'm still pumping) and we
>tried on day 5 to reintroduce
>breastmilk.  She latched on all day with no problem and ate like crazy.
>By 4p.m. she was crying hysterically
>again and wouldn't even take the formula willingly again for 16 hours.
>We have been told to stick to my very
>meager diet (rice, chicken, zucchini, squash, carrots, and oats) and
>once a week introduce another fruit or vegi.,
>always leaving out dairy, soy, nuts, fish, corn, and beef.  I am holding
>out that maybe at 10 days the casein will
>leave me system (dairy most implicated and women have told me that dairy
>has been it in their case) and we can
>try again.  We do not want to keep torchering Natalie, in our case
>that's what we are doing, but no one seems
>to really know what this is about.  My M.D. says she could be reacting
>to anything in my breastmilk.
>
>Any knowledge of this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
>Karen Kissel
>
>
>
>

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