On Friday 10 January 2003 19:07 pm, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Subject: breastfeeding and atopy studies
>
> I am just curious, did the research define breastfeeding?  If in the
> first two studies the babies got even just one bottle of formula that
> could set them up for a future atopy reaction.
> Just wondering.
> Ann Perry RN IBCLC
> Boston, MA

I was actually wondering the same thing and something else came to mind.
This is probably going to get to my point after going around a couple of
corners, so bear with me.

Regarding HIV and breastfeeding, I do remember seeing studies (but
cannot remember the citation) that indicated that HIV+ mothers who did a
combination of breastfeeding and formula feeding actually had the
highest mother to baby transmission rates.  (If I'm wrong in that
remembrance please do correct me.)  As I also recall, the reasoning for
that is that the irritation from the formula itself caused breaches in
the gut that were capable of allowing HIV into the baby's body.

That got me to thinking.

Is it possible that perhaps a combination of breastfeeding and formula
feeding has a similar result?  That the irritation caused by formula
disrupts the integrity of the gut and allows antigens that ordinarily
would have not been a problem to become one?

Any thoughts on this?

--
Elisa H. Casey
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