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Old September 5th 07, 10:56 PM posted to misc.kids.breastfeeding
Flowergirl
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Default pancreatic enzymes in colitis?


"Akuvikate" wrote in message
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Anyone know of any research on giving mom pancreatic enzymes to help
babies with bloody stools despite mom attempting an elimination diet?
I found one study from 1999 in the Journal of Pediatric
Gastroenterology & Nutrition but it had a whopping 4 patients and is
nearly 10 years old. It would seem sensible to follow this up with a
stronger study but I haven't found anything. I have a patient with
this problem and though part of the problem may have been not giving
the elimination diet sufficient time to work, would be interested in
this possibility. As I suspect it would involve a battle to get the
enzymes covered (I believe they're a pretty expensive drug) I would
need to have some evidence to back me up.

Kate, ignorant foot soldier of the medical cartel
and the Bug, 4 years old


No help sorry - but if you do find any info, please let me know.

A friend of mine's 2nd child had colitis (which was eventually Dx as
breastmilk colitis) and she was on a very resrticted diet (I've posted about
that here before). Her elimiatnion diet did seem to work for the bub, but
she was only able to eat about 8 foods in total.
The bub was bf for 18 months (even though the paed. gastroenterologist kept
urging my friend to wean her bub and give her Neocate), and was on very few
solids when she weaned ... but then improved markedly in both her gut
problems and solid intake and tolerance. (This child - now almost 2 years
old- still has food intolerance issues, but can now eat sufficient solids).

.... so even though this situation is slowly resolving, I'm sure my friend
would still like to find out more about the issue as she was never happy
with what any of the specialists were telling her (much of the advice from
different specialists was contradictory).
Amanda