Dear Friends:
    I too am interested in any information about bf and autism. Here is one
study:

J Autism Dev Disord 1989 Sep;19(3):425-34

Weaning time of children with infantile autism.

Tanoue Y, Oda S

Department of Clinical Psychiatry, Yuhara Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan.

Since early weaning in infancy has been known to result in vulnerability to
infection, weaning times of 145 children diagnosed as autistic by DSM-III
were statistically compared with those of 224 normal children in the same
catchment area: 24.8% of the patients and 7.5% of the controls were weaned by
the end of 1 week, a significant difference. Early weaning because of the
mother's rather than the child's condition occurred with 17.9% of the
patients and 5.8% of the controls, also a significant difference. Historical
studies on infantile autism revealed that the disease developed more
prevalently in the socioeconomic status where the incidence of breast-feeding
was less frequent. These results suggest that early weaning may contribute to
the etiology of infantile autism.



Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner; childbirth educator
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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