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Infant feeding causes all cases of asthma, eczema, and hay fever. Or does it?
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If one does not feed babies, one can be absolutely certain that
they will not develop atopic disease
clear proof of the dangers of
infant feeding. The logic of this statement may seem a little fuzzy,
but medical journals abound with this sort of nonsense, especially when
it comes to the topic of infant feeding and allergy.
Unusually, this issue contains a paper that will save livesnot
babies' but midwives'.1 The received wisdom, more of a religious belief than a scientific fact, has been that a single bottle
of milk formula is enough to totally destroy the delicate balance of
the infant's protective immune system, leading to the very worst
atopic mayhem that the forces of the immune system can muster. This
idea gathered momentum as a result of gently massaged intervention
studies thatfor example, classified respiratory symptoms as
"cough" in breast fed babies but as "wheezing/asthma" in
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