Food and colic
From “The Baby and Child ; Book,” by Doctors Andrew and Penny Stanway. (Orbis).
Recently, some researchers have suggested that traces of undigested foods (and drinks) such as cows’ milk in the mother’s breast milk may produce colic in susceptible babies. This may be more likely to happen if the baby comes from a family in which one or more members have allergic problems such as eczema, asthma or hay
fever. Also, if tne mother , eats an excess of the food in question, her :: baby may be more likely to be affected. < More than 300 ml (half * a pint) of cows’ milk a < day for a breast-feeding r mother, for Instance, re- <, presents quite a large proportion of her daily - calorie intake in the form of one food. If you think that it is worth trying, avoid one food at a time com- \ pletely for four or five days. If your baby’s colic disappears, then try the . food again in the same • amounts you were eating * it in before. •
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Press, 8 May 1986, Page 8
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