Nikki reported that: > . > de Boissieu et al in Acta Paediatrica 1997; 86:1042-1046 use prick tests > to show that food allergy during breastfeeding may be due to multiple > foods. > Sample was only 6 infants. > Ooo-- Nikki, do you have the article and can you summarize an analysis of it? What I want to know is, did the prick tests correspond to foods the mother was eating -- what were the symptoms of the babies before they did the tests, and if the mother eliminated the foods from her diet, were the symptoms resolved? I just have this feeling that if you took 100 newborns -- ages 3 months to 6 months perhaps, and did skin testing on all of them, I betcha 75% would show up as "allergic" to something -- probably several somethings. But that's just a hunch, and is completely NOT EVIDENCE BASED. Jan -- musing in Wheaton *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html