>We are saying, well we know that a lot of alcohol is bad for your baby,
>but a little bit PROBABLY doesn't hurt.  Are we willing to substitute the
>word "bottle" or "formula" for "alcohol?<

No, we're willing to substitute "salt" or "sugar" or zinc or vitamin E or a
zillion other things. All can be harmful in excess and all have different
levels that would be considered excess. So is alcohol harmful in excess.
Chanita, this is a non sequitur: it doesn't follow. Why? because we know
that infant formula (even a little bit) dramatically changes gut ecology,
that it can take weeks or months to re-establish normal gut flora and in
the interim an infant is at greater risk of allergic inflammatory and
infectious disease... If you mean a very very little (like mg. doses) then
you are at greater risk of stimulating reactivity according to some
immunologists. One bottle is a lot, however. M

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