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In a message dated 1/11/01 4:40:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> Hi all,
>
> I have no answers, just another question. A while ago, someone suggested
> to me that there may be a second-generation dimension to allergy. For
> example, a woman formula-feeds her daughter, causing the daughter's
> immune system to be altered in some way and sensitized to cow's milk
> proteins, although she is asymptomatic. When that child grows up and
> breastfeeds her own child, she passes along her sensitivity to the child,
> who then becomes reactive to the cow's-milk proteins in the breastmilk.
> Is this a feasible scenario? Has anyone heard this hypothesis before?
>
> - Marcia McCoy, IBCLC
>
So far as I know, there's no research data on this theory. I'd sure love to
see some, though.
Linda Shaw MD FAAP
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