>A friend of mine who is a neonatologist here in Austin forwarded to me some
>info on using pancrease to  treat mothers whose babies have food protein
>intolerances and GER.  The moms take something like Ultrase with meals, and
>the enzyme helps them digest better. This somehow improves the baby.  I am
>not sure I understand the mechanism, and if any of the MDs on the list have
>refs on this I'd like to see more discussion.

Is pancrease (or Ultrase) a prescription product?  I am not familiar with
it, but what you write is most interesting.  I have clients whose babies do
"better" on predigested abm than on mother's milk and it is most
distressing.  Mothers, understandably, feel that they are making their
babies sick.

Along these same lines, I have vegan mothers who have to eat all of the
"gas producing" vegetables and their babies are less bothered with painful
gas if mother uses "Beano" drops.  It makes NO sense, but it works for
almost all of them.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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