This study has a fatal flaw. They found that 35% of babies were exclusively breastfed for 6 mo....these babies were born between 2001 and 2005. Until the end of 2003 the infant feeding recommendations in Australia were for babies to be exclusively breastfed for 4 months only. National rates of exclusive breastfeeding even now are no higher than 15%. Their numbers are dodgy. No conclusions can be drawn from this research.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
On 15/07/2012, at 11:31 AM, Diana Cassar-Uhl wrote:
> I just love (yeah, not really) these studies that implicate exclusive
> breastfeeding in the development of food allergies in the child. Until I
> read one that takes into account the gut integrity of the mother, I'm just
> going to keep getting angry.
>
> Seriously -- keep feeding mothers the junk so many populations call "food"
> and we're going to keep seeing babies reacting as if they were exposed to
> allergens from day one ... because if mother's gut is messed up, those
> crazy proteins are going to get to the baby.
>
> Exhaling ...
>
> --Diana Cassar-Uhl, IBCLC in upstate NY
>
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