When a baby is reacting to bovine milk protein, they will become SECONDARILY lactose intolerant -- the inflamed/damaged intestines lose ability to make a few enzymes, including lactase. The lactose intolerance tests can be positive but the lactose intolerance can disappear very quickly after removal of bovine fortifiers and/or mother's dairy diet. The true incidence of lactose intolerance in an infant is extremely incredibly rare -- there's no way for such a gene to be passed on (except for a funny small pocket in Greenland), until of the last 50 years (lactose-free formulas). Mother having lactose intolerance has no bearing. That's a natural adult state. Lactose is a baby sugar -- not occuring in a natural adult diet and thus our bodies are not designed to digest it into adulthood. Those of Northern European descent developed lactase enzyme persistence over time as they learned to depend on cows to turn little bits of weeds into food for them (milk) in the Northern Tundras. Those who couldn't tolerate it died. As for lactase enzyme in mother's milk -- I surely don't think so (but wouldn't mind being proven wrong). I looked this up very pointedly when I disbelieved (and still disbelieve) the raw-cow's-milk "research" sites that say raw milk has lactase enzyme. Not much of their other information was confirmable either, so... *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html