I have take the mom off of cow's milk although
>being a vegetarian, she isn't thrilled with the idea.  The mother will
>not go for an SNS.

Thanks for the details of the case.  There is a connection with food
sensitivities and failure to gain weight.  I learned this from Lactnet a
couple of years ago when I was working with a baby who was FTT.  When mom
removed ALL dairy food from her diet--reading labels carefully--baby began
to gain weight.  He had a myriad of tests with all showing normal.

This mom, too, is vegetarian and found it a challenging diet.  But she did
use eggs, which baby wasn't sensitive to, and which added cholesterol to
her diet, an important component for "good" fats in breastmilk.  She added
some flax seed oil for the essential fatty acids and she made sure to use
olive oil so that her own fat intake was adequate.

Just this month she sent me a picture of her 16 month old boy whom no one
would ever suspect had been FTT. She feels that eliminating milk products
was the most effective part of the treatment.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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