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

but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!

Professor Brostoff is one of the best, apparently.  I think he is at
UCH now.  When I attended his clinic he had an excellent dietician who
had multiple food allergies herself.  Be warned though, he has a long
waiting list for NHS referals, but I believe he practises privately as
well.  

You may find it easier  to remove white opaque liquids altogether when
Froggy is older.  You can replace the nutrients in milk far more
efficiently with other foods really.  As a child I had all sorts of
weird things because milk free alternatives were just not available in
NZ at the time (even my soy formula had to be collected from a
hospital once a month as it was not even licensed for prescription use
via a pharmacy).   Mayonnaise (often homemade) on sandwiches is still
a common one for me (there were *no* dairy free margarines).  

Soy and rice milk are *OK*.  Not particularly nice IMO.  Anything
thats flavoured is full of additives and YMMV on those.  Likewise
anything like soy yoghurt, cheese etc are so packed full of additives
and heavily processed in order to get them to look like a dairy
product that I would balk at giving them to a baby (though I have to
admit to being partial to toffutti myself !)

Megan
--
Seoras David Montgomery, 7 May 2003, 17 hours: sunrise to sunset (homebirth)

To e-mail use:  megan at farr-montgomery dot com

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