Dear Pam, 
 My daughter's baby was a miserable baby his first 6 weeks.  She had OMER to add to the problem of diagnosis. But we did find that the symptoms got better but not gone with dairy removal even after 2 weeks.  Meanwhile the baby is still crying and miserable most of his awake time.  During a consultation with a pediatric gastroenterologist he suggested removing all beef from her diet also.  Not based on anything in research that he knew of, just common sense that the proteins from the same animal might have a relationship. (Mom did love beef and ate it in some form several times per day). 48 hours after removing all beef there was significant improvement and after one week we finally had a normally behaving baby! As a side note, as a toddler he handled beef protein much sooner than he tolerated cow's milk in his diet.   That is my personal experience of one. I do pass on this information to mothers of babies in whom we suspect bovine milk allergy and it has made a difference for some.  
Sue Gehrman 
 

Susan Gehrman RN, IBCLC, CCE
Battle Creek Health System
300 North Ave.
Battle Creek, Michigan 49016
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>>> Pamela Morrison <[log in to unmask]> 10/14/2008 1:20 PM >>>
Dear Wise Ones,

I've had a question about infant sensitivity to bovine proteins 
coming through the mother's milk, and specifically querying whether 
beef as well as dairy products can cause problems.   My experience is 
that it definitely can, and that a total elimination of both dairy 
products _and_ beef from the mother's diet can result in complete 
resolution of "colic", eczema, reflux, extreme wakefulness, and 
general irritability in the exclusively breastfed baby.  The enquirer 
suggests that the allergic protein in cow's milk isn't present in 
cow's meat - beef.    I've just done a search of the archives and 
found plenty of anecdotal reports, dating back to about 1995 
(including my own!) attesting to the value of the mother doing a 
complete elimination of all dairy products and beef in her 
diet.   I've also found the following in Breastfeeding and Human 
Lactation (Riordan & Auerbach) 1999:

"Although cow's milk appears to be the single most frequenyt offender 
in a mother's diet, other foods also have been implicated 
.......  They include beef, eggs peanut butter, wheat .... and 
high-acid fruits and vegatables."  (Ref: Chandra RK et al:  influence 
of maternal food antigen avoidance during pregnancy and lactation on 
incidence of atopic eczema in infants.  Clin Allergy 16:563-9, 1986).

Does anyone have any more information, or a more up to date reference 
to share that confirms what we intuitively know - ie that the more 
concentrated form of bovine protein in the meat is likely to also be 
a problem for some EBF babies who are sensitive to cow's milk 
proteins ingested by the mother?

Many thanks if you can help.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
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