> It is simple lactose overload when baby gets more milk than he can
> digest efficiently, so the excess lactose gets to the bowel where it
> is fermented by bacteria to produce acid stools and gas. Voila -
> colic pains! Baby cries in pain and wants to suck (as that's the only
> comfort he knows), so mother interprets that as hunger, feeds him
> again, and perpetuates the cycle. These babies often don't go to
> sleep after feeds - they scream!

I agree, but:
the treatment for this kind of colic is not to feed the baby according to a
rigid schedule, but to feed more often and in small amounts. That way there will
not be an overlaod in anything (water, lactose, whatever) and the fatcontent
will rise, thus reducing the relative high lactose.
My short time solution is to clear the breasts by pumping as much as possible
from both breasts. Then right away follow with the long term solution: feed the
baby very frequent and short one breast at a time.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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