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>The general rule is that if you have problems with cow's milk, you will/may
>have problems with goat's milk because goat's milk contains the allergy-
>provoking protein casein and it also contains milk sugar lactose.
>Andrew MD
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I agree with the first part of this statement, as it is still 'foreign',
but I wasn't sure about the second bit. My understanding is that it is the
beta-lactoglobulin in cow's milk that is the most likely to cause allergy
problems - there is no equilalent protein in human milk, just alpha
lactoglobulin.
Is casein the same in different species? I really don't know on this one,
but human milk *does* contain casein, just less than cow's milk. However, I
didn't think that this was a major allergen compared to other proteins, but
I am willing to be educated more on this.
'Milk sugar lactose' is the same in all species - lactose is a relatively
simple (disaccharide) sugar that consists of glucose and galactose units
joined together, biochemically the same everywhere, and human milk has more
of it than any other species.
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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia. mailto:[log in to unmask]
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