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And although many people already know that colitis may depend on hypersensitivity to milk by-products, few know that many cases of intestinal bleeding are due to the same cause and that this can lead toanemia, especially in small children.
Are we eating poison?
An Austrian study on breast-fed children who had intestinal bleeding indicated that the cause was due to an intolerance to their mothers’ milk.
These infants often undergo examinations that are invasive and damaging at such a young age (proctoscopy or colonoscopy). This report, which was printed in the April issue of an authoritative medical magazine, goes on to relate that the children get better within 3 days if the mother goes on a diet.
We shouldn’t deny the existence of a food intolerance on principle
We can be sure that milk and its by-products are produced differently today than they were 40 years ago (just think of the residues of antibiotics that are present) but they can still be viewed as healthy foods as long as our diet takes into consideration individual needs and intolerances.
A recent Austrian study (Postgrad Med J 2001 Apr; 77 (906):252-4) re-introduces two very current topics in a dramatic way:
A) The attempt on the part of some medical groups to undermine the importance of breast feeding as if it could cause harm to the infant. In this way they renew the promotion of artificial milk (it seems that the sad campaign for artificial milk that took place in Africa, with its numerous deaths wasn’t sufficient to appease the commercial appetite of some producers);
B) The use of harmful or inadequate examination instruments in place of medical common sense, which should be able to help understand the cause of an illness without preconceived ideas.
Unfortunately, in many medical sectors, the existence of immunological phenomena linked to food is still derided, in spite of of the abundant scientific documentation available.
It’s impossible to ignore the work on constipation correlated with milk intolerance (N Engl J Med 1998 Oct 15; 339 (16):1100-4), or the studies on intestinal blood loss caused by milk or milk by-product consumption by infants less than 1 year of age (J Pediatr 1999 Dec; 135(6): 720-6).
Nevertheless the majority of pediatricians and doctors continues to deny the evidence!
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