Neocate and Milk Allergy Whilst Breast Feeding
Breastfeeding provides optimal nutrition for babies and can also help prevent certain infections in babies. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby's life.
Normally babies will not develop allergic symptoms while being exclusively breastfed. However, very sensitive babies can develop allergic symptoms (e.g. atopic dermatitis) despite exclusive breastfeeding.
This is not allergy to breast milk itself. It is an allergic reaction to small amounts of dietary proteins (e.g. cows' milk protein, egg protein, etc) that are passing from mother to baby in the mother's breast milk.
Although breastfeeding is considered to be protective against the development of atopic disease, some infants become sensitized to the dietary antigens present in breast milk from their mothers' diet. They can then exhibit symptoms such as dermatitis and poor growth.
Breastfeed infants with allergy should be treated by allergy avoidance and, particularly in cases where growth is impaired, the physician should consider replacing breastfeeding with nutrition based on a non-allergenic replacement such as Neocate infant formula.
Neocate infant formula can be successfully used as a breast milk substitute in this situation .
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