Breast milk colitis is a strong case for giving baby formulas a try. Many a pediatrician and parent has witnessed an improvement in a baby’s allergies (often hives, eczema, asthma, nappy rash and breast milk colitis) when the baby is taken off the breast and put on a formula. This is because that particular formula didn’t contain the specific allergens carried in that particular mother’s milk. Unfortunately the erroneous conclusion that all formulas are good for all babies all of the time is drawn from this.
The facts are that not all babies improve on formulas. Some babies are allergic to the cow’s and soymilk they’re made from. Some are allergic to the malt and other inclusions and because of these sensitivities don’t improve when taken off the breast. If the baby has contracted a Candida yeast infection from the mother, the sugar in the formula will so aggravate the Candida infection that the symptoms will become worse. If the Candida infection is only mild it will take time for the symptoms to flare. Because an initial improvement was witnessed on the formula the emerging symptoms of a developing Candida problem are not attributed to the formula and the baby is invariably kept on it with no cause ever found for its suffering.
Formulas are not the answer. By doing this I he baby will lose his/her allergies, won’t need formulas and won’t need to be on solid food before the age of ten months.
Breast feeding so effectively boosts the baby’s immunity as to reduce the incidence of allergy by 25 per cent’. This fact was discovered by research doctors in Finland who followed the lives of babies born in 1975 through to the present day. Eczema, asthma and food allergies had developed in 65 per cent of 17 year olds who had received little or no breast feeding. In those breast fed to six months the incidence was 40 per cent. These findings received such acclaim in the scientific world they were written up in the prestigious Lancet medical journal.
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