Re: Slightly OT: Info on allergies & cow's milk alternatives please

My daughter was on Neocate for about a year, in addition to breastmilk
(with me following the allergen free diet),  and table foods.  We had
to use it because she was allergic to milk and eggs and wasn't growing
properly.  It's 'high calorie', and it is just amino acids, but also,
they're all single chain.  It's also unflavored, pretty yucky, and
extremely expensive (about 1$/oz., for the powdered one.  Not sure
about the kind that comes in a juicebox, 'cause my daughter doesn't
like sweets so she wouldn't try that one).

I'm going to go back and look at the OP to see about those questions,
but I just wanted to mention this, too.

Tina.

i've heard them talk about the formula "neocate" (see
http://www.shsna.com/html/hypoallergenic.htm) on a food allergy list i'm on.
some kids & people with very severe food allergies eat it. it's apparently
just made from amino acids.

i'm sure beth kevles & some other people who post on here can give you good
info. her website is   http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html BTW.

In brief: the midwife/nanny/lactation consultant who helped me out when
Froggie was a newborn phoned me today to ask about allergies.  She is
looking for resources on baby allergies, especially to cow's milk
products.

Can anybody provide any suggestions please?  Helpful things would
include:

1) Books
2) Webpages
3) Clued-up healthcare professionals that she can consult or refer her
clients, especially nutritionists, dieticians, pediatricians etc.
Ideally such people would be London-based.
4) Info on alternatives such as goat & soya - recommended brands,
analyses, any opinions/experiences

This LC is extremely pro-BF so please don't slam her (or me) for asking
about this.  She turned to me because I found very early on that Froggie
is allergic to cow's milk products but is perfectly ok on goat's milk
products (as am I).  She said that she's always preferred to recommend
standard cow formula (1) because it's been more extensively used &
studied but that so  many clients are phoning up with problems (acid
reflux, eczema, protein allergies, lactose intolerance were the four she
mentioned) that she realises she needs to bone up on this.  Clearly
different problems require different approaches.

Last summer I met a woman whose lovely baby was exactly the same age as
Froggie, but who was considerably smaller.  And Froggie is a petite baby
herself.  This baby was allergic to all kinds of milk including,
staggeringly, breastmilk.  She had to be fed bottles of, as her mum put
it, "pharmaceutical pretend food, thickened with rice flour to make it
look vaguely milky, so the parents can pretend it's milk.'  Does anybody
know what this stuff might be?

All help gratefully received.

(1) When it's been necessary, breastmilk being otherwise unavailable