>  >The study also found that pharmacy costs for breastfed children are lower,
>>because they require 62 percent fewer prescriptions.
>
>Or, to put in "Diane Wiessinger language" -- formula-fed children required
>163% more prescriptions than breastfed children, almost 3 times as many.
>
>Kathy D.
>


As an aside, in the UK,  babies and kids only see paediatricians when
they are actually ill (or maybe for an assessment of a disabling
condition).  The rest of the time they'll see a health visitor or GP
or 'clinic doctor'.

Two paeds have said to me recently they *never* see a breastfed baby
or toddler.

What, never? I asked.

Never, they answered.  They can go from one year's busy practice to
the next and never see one. The ill babies - the only ones they see -
are formula fed babies. Breastfed babies just don't fall
ill....generally speaking.  Of course I'm not surprised, but it's
interesting the effect can be so marked.

Given that specialist doctors are the most expensive human pieces of
our health service, formula feeding must cost the UK National Health
Service squillions. We could work out that if every mother formula
fed, the NHS would need X more paeds, Y more nurses, and Z more
hospital beds.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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