Thanks very much Valerie. He obviously have a very flexible definition of
"exclusive"
Karleen Gribble
Australia

>
> Yes he did respond to that issue with the following:
>
 A further table will be published in the
> Lancet giving data for those children in whom breastfeeding was (with the
> exception of the first 2 or 3 days in the hospital) reported to be
exclusive.
>  As you will see when you read that response, even in those infants who
were
> exclusively breastfed for 3 months or more, there was no evidence of a
> protective effect relating to atopy and asthma."

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