Just read an article out of the Journal of Pediatrics, January 1999, stating
that a team of investigators from Finland stufied 100 infants who had
developed moderate to sever atopic excema while breastfeeding. Their
conclusion: breastfed infants who develop allergic symptoms should be
treated with allergy avoidance (i.e. elimination diet on the part of the
mom). In cases where infants experience growth retardation along with these
allergic symptoms, it was recommended that breastfeeding be "eliminated".

Any comment from the LACTNET gallery?  I am sad that this appeared in this
particular journal!

Find it at:
http://www.medscape.com/Medscape/features/JournalScan/pediatrics/1999js-ped0
201.html

Brenda Phipps, BS, IBCLC

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