What is it with doctors and breastfeeding?

[bobthebaby]

My 9 mo ds has bad eczema and allergies to lots of stuff notably milk, egg and peanut. As I am bfing I avoid these too. Today I had to take ds to hospital because his skin got so bad he had to have antibiotics. His paed. gave me a jar of Neocate to wean him onto and the registrar said "I bet you will be glad to wean him" when I told her the things I couldn't eat. I don't want to wean him, in fact I'm not going to. Can anyone point me to studies which show I am helping not harming by continuing to bf him. The doctors seem convinced that if I weaned his eczema would go away, which I think is total rubbish. I think its the only thing that helps the pain and about the only useful thing I can do for him. But then this doubt comes in, because they are doctors and I am just a mum.

Ah, right then Pupuce. What a funny name for a non-American woman to have! Hasn't much excuse, then, does she?

good point JJ. They talk a lot about practicing "evidence-based medicine", where the best evidence is supposed to come from randomised prospective trials (like one patient gets the real medicine and the other gets a placebo, whereby neither patient or treating practitioner know who gets what. then they compare outcome in both groups.bit difficult to do with bf though...)
DH (a GP)was laughing when I told him about this discussion;like you should have trials to see whether legs are the best way to walk and whether eating with your mouth is really the best way to eat

What about this for a cure for allergies ....

worms

YUK!!

Think I'll stick with the allergies, thank you!