Article about allergy to breastmilk - warning it's in the Daily Mail

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www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1086810/I-poisoned-baby-breastfeeding--doctors-said-I-neurotic.ht ml

The article twisted it a bit, didn't it? (surprise, surprise) So the baby was allergic to foods in her breastmilk, not poisoned by it.

I know charchar, typical DM, thought the ladies experiences were worth sharing though.

Out of interest, is the DM generally anti-bf?

I believe it is, certainly I haven't seen many positive articles from them. The lady's experience was interesting and definitely worth sharing. I don't think it's massively common for that to happen, but it's useful for new mums to be aware of the symptoms.

Shame so many of the comments had a pop at her for continuing to breastfeed and digs at breastfeeding Nazis (yawn, yawn). The baby would have been far, far worse on formula!

I agree tiktok. I had to stop looking as the comments were really annoying me.

The story doesn't match the headline at all does it? the mother doesn't blame breastfeeding, just her diet and the fact that her baby was allergic/intolerant to so much.

"Over 50% of babies are lactose intolerant, breast milk is a poison to them." There aren't enough faces in the world.

(it's possible that 50% of the world's population is lactose intolerant - but this kicks in around the age of 7!)

I don't know if the DM is anti-bf, but it's certainly (always) anti-woman.

I know, nqc, I was quite at that little gem too

My first born was pretty much like the baby described in the article.

We went from doctor to doctor and none of them really helped us. It was an osteopath who suggested allergies and an exclusion diet to me. I figured the rest out from google.

We took her to an allergist and had to insist on allergy testing (and pay for some). The allergist was keen for me to stop feeding as he didn't think I would stick to the strict exclusion diet. Just as well I ignored his advice as the testing we did suggested that DD wouldn't have been able to tolerate either hypoallergenic formula or soya. I wouldn't have wanted to feed them to her anyway.

She changed completely and thrived once the exclusion diet started to take effect. I honestly don't know if she would have pulled through if I had stopped feeding her, she was so thin and tiny and her gut was in such poor shape.

I know some immediate family and friends thought that I was being misguided and selfish by continuing breast feeding. Mostly I couldn't work up the energy to argue with them so just ignored them and got on with what I knew was right. Thankfully my DH, mum, dad and sister were all wonderful support and took the time to research and understand the issues properly.

Now DD is five and in pretty good health although she still has allergy issues.

Beachcomber, my DS was allergic to hypoallergenic formula and soya formula .

I am still bfing him at 22 months. Hopefully it'll give him the best chance of outgrowing his allergies.

Well done trixy. That was my thinking too. My DD is now 5 and still very allergic to dairy and soya especially. She seems to be able to tolerate a lot of foods now that made her very ill as a baby.

Good luck, I hope things improve for your DS.

When I saw this article this morning there were no comments yet. I wrote one but it hasn't been published. I guess that's because I ended it with "That's the Daily Lobotomy for ya".

I am actually staggered that, despite already having a child with a milk allergy, and despite all the symptoms the child was presenting that the mother didn't even think to try cutting dfairy out of her diet

Well, she was told that because he was breastfed what she ate shouldn?t be a problem and it wasn't just dairy the baby was allergic to anyway.

Most children with allergies or intolerances don't react to what their mothers eat. I know of one child with very strong reactions (vomiting), and plenty of allergic kids with no reactions to whatever's in their mother's breastmilk.

I saw loads of doctors and none of them seemed to know that my DD could be reacting to foods passing into my milk.

People know more about this now but 5 years ago I didn't know anyone who had had a similar experience.

I know of a child who ended up in hospital with anaemia that was caused by an allergic reaction to foods in breast milk. Took doctors weeks to figure out what was wrong.

How can mothers be expected to know this when medical professionals often don't?

All I got told was that DD had reflux. Actually I think reflux is probably undiagnosed dairy intolerance in a lot of cases.

Seems obvious once someone's told you and all that but I had difficulty getting people to believe me.

and at how judgemental and downright nasty some of the responses posted to the original article are. that most of them seem to be from women too.