In a message dated 98-08-02 00:10:40 EDT, you write: << Having had a client this year who had a near fatal anaphylatic episode following the ingestion of formula (and he had the classic history...just a few "top offs" in the early weeks), I firmly believe that fromula is a significant risk to an infant. Time to check that research carefully for flaws. >> The most obvious flaw is that the control group was not exclusively breastfed. The study compared two groups of babies that received ABM for three days - one group got "regular" ABM, the other ABM without the protein. Both groups breastfed after three days. Okay, so this indicates that *if* a baby is to get ABM it might as well be "regular" ABM - but the authors make a huge leap to conclude that ABM doesn't predispose babies to allergy when they didn't check the rate of allergy in exclusively breastfed babies. If this makes *any* sense to the rest of you please explain it to me. Elaine Ziska, LLLL