- This morning (January 17, 2005), I performed a Medline
search on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) research from January 1,
2004 through January 15, 2005.
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- Hundreds of studies implicated a variety of etiologies
for SIDS, including sleeping position, genetic markers, infanticide, air
pollution, and parental smoking habits. I was suprised to find no investigations
into the infant's last meal.
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- Without any exceptions, each infant ate a last meal,
and many autopsies suggested an autoimmune response to some unknown factor,
yet, of hundreds of abstracts read, not one explored the role of allergy
to a food protein.
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- Not one study considered milk or milk-based formula.
Is it any wonder that the medical literature is so lacking?
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- What milk-formula company would donate millions of research
dollars to implicate cow's milk protein as the cause? Better to blame SIDS
on infant sleeping position.
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- In the past, the medical literature came close to identifying
the cause and finding the cure:
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- * "Hypersensitivity to milk is implicated as a
cause of sudden death in infancy." The Lancet, vol. 2, 7160, November
19, 1960
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- * "Those who consumed cows milk were fourteen times
more likely to die from diarrhea-related complications and four times more
likely to die of pneumonia than were breast-fed babies. Intolerance and
allergy to cow's milk products is a factor in sudden infant death syndrome."
The Lancet, vol. 344, November 5, 1994
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- * "Those infants who died of SIDS expressed inappropriate
or inflammatory responses suggesting violent allergic reactions to a foreign
protein. Lung tissue and cells showed responses similar to bronchial wall
inflammation in asthma." The Lancet, vol. 343, June 4, 1994,
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- Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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