Dear Terry: I started off residency recommending corn syrup for constipation alsoo. I then ran into someone who had a fairly extensive experience with infant botulism and had seen cases which had occurred in infants consuming corn syrup, and I think there was a case here in Rochester (child exposed in Pennsylvania, though) at the beginning of the year, though I can't be sure right now. Medline turned up an article in the American Journal of syrupes of Children infants. I agree the evidence is far from incontrovertible, but as a mother I chose not to give my infant either honey or corn syrup and used prunes and prune juice instead. Since I never recommend anything for my patients which I would not also do for my own daughter, I recommend the same regimen for constipation for my patients (if needed). Giosi Di Meglio, M [log in to unmask]