> Babies are not lactose intolerant, but they can react to too much lactose,
> just like we can.  They just need more hindmilk - not Lactaid drops.


I once had a mother (I've reported it here on LasctNet), whose son (a couple of
months old) had a terrible intestinal infection, and almost died. His caregiver
also had that infection, and did die...

His flora was so much damaged that he couldn't handle the lactose in breastmilk
anymore. I knew that the breastmilk was the best thing to give to rebuild the
flora, but it was imposible, because it caused terrible dairrea at that point,
causing even more dehydration. I suspected there was also an allergy in play, and
later this was confirmed. The baby was on nutrigamin.

Based on the article from Lawlor-Smith & Lawlor-Smith on
http://www.gp.org.au/cls/lactose.html I encouraged her to pump, and start giving
breastmilk litle by little and gradually increase the mount, and add Lactaid
drops. As is described in this article, it took about 6 weeks, to come to
exclusively breastmilk again.

regards, Annelies Bon
Lay counsellor of the Dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"

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