I seem to be seeing/hearing about increased numbers of infants who develop
severe GER and/or GI bleeding due to true allergy (as evidenced by
eosinophilia) while breastfeeding.  Sometimes having the mom go off dairy
(the most common offender, I think) helps, but I've had kids who react to
unusual things in mom's diet (one reacted to white potato--we discovered this
through trial & error & her RAST to potato was positive).  Some of these kids
just don't gain weight/do well until they are taken off breast and put on
Neocate.

It seems evolutionarily odd that human infants should react to human milk.
Is this condition seen more in cultures that ingest more cow milk protein?
Has a specific gene/genes been identified as contributing?  Is there any good
way to identify the problematic protein(s) in the mom's diet so that we could
treat the kids with maternal dietary restriction and not unduly restrict the
maternal diet?

Anyone with information, I'd be most interested.

Linda L. Shaw MD FAAP

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