I have to voice the same concern.  How do we REALLY know what the normal
trig levels are supposed to be in normal, healthy infants that are  
exclusively
breastfed that are not fasting?

Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC
Clinical Director
Mothers Milk Bank of New England

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Date:    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:28:47 -0400
From:    Fleur Bickford <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Triglyceride levels in infants

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:19:19 -0400, Katherine Dettwyler
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Have there been many studies of triglyceride levels in normal healthy
breastfeeding infants, to know what the range should be?

> Kathy Dettwyler, not a doctor


I was wondering this too. Have triglyceride levels been drawn often  
enoug=
h
on *exclusively* breastfed infants to actually have an accurate  
reference=

range? Considering the food reactions, there is obviously something  
going=
  on
with this baby, but perhaps the high triglycerides have nothing to do  
wit=
h
it, and are actually distracting from the real issue. Perhaps it is  
norma=
l
for exclusively breastfed infants to have high triglyceride levels  
(as is=

the case with cholesterol), and the levels only appear high because  
they =
are
being judged against a reference range that is not representative of
exclusively breastfed babies.=20
There could of course be a medical problem with this baby, but I'm  
really=

curious about where the reference range for the triglycerides comes  
from.=


Warmly,
Fleur Bickford BSc., RN, LLLL
Ontario, Canada

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