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From: "Magda Sachs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:21 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] WAS M. Pesonen research NOW 'widow of opportunity'
**Hello all,
> I am not disputing that there may be great advantages for children in
> receiving complementary foods by a certain age, however I really feel we
> need to procede with caution before creating slogans which could come back
> to haunt us and which could diminish the nutrition of more generations of
> babies.
**Well, Morgan... at least Magda has great trust in your ability to
influence a whole nation or world, for that matter, with your slogans!
hahaha
I want to join in with Teresa, who wonders if the allergic babies were
resisting food until older, as a sign of an allergy.
And if they were symptom-free until that age, that might also be worthwile,
as in those first months, they are still so vulnerable.
I admit that I did not read the whole research paper, but for a long time I
have been wondering about this complicated issue.
Just the other day, one of my girls (16) told about a classmate who had said
that he was allergic to breastmilk. I explained my daughter (who recently
wrote a paper for school about immunity and breastfeeding's role in it
(disagreeing with her friend's wording "Some mothers chose not to bf" as an
opening sentence... ;-)) and got a really good grade; I can ask *her* now if
I don't understand things... ;-)) that you cannot be allergic to breastmilk,
but that you are allergic to elements *in* the breastmilk that are not
species specific.
So I wonder, about these babies, exlusively bf for 6 or 9 months: are they
more allergic with introduction of solids after 6 months than after 9
months, or less?
The increase in atopic dermatitis: as compared to what...? To non-exclusive
breastfeeding, and if so, non-exclusive in what period, before or after six
or nine months...?
Oh, dear... I always get very mixed up. It really is beyond my imagination
that normal mammalian behaviour could infer more risks than something else.
Shouldn't be reading so much Lactnet-mail and get my formula brain washed...
And how to correct for all the confounding variables...? Pfff... research is
tricky business, imo...
Kindly,
Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands
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