My son used to be lactose intolerant as a baby and toddler. We
discovered this when he was 6 months old, on my very first Mother's Day
(when we also had a guest from Oz staying with us that weekend!), and he
couldn't get down any regular formula, without gagging.
I read the above and my gut response was "why formula, why not tit-milk"... But then I remembered a girl (two floors up in my Warsaw apartment house) whose baby gagged and lost weight, and sickened by an hour... The final analysis was that she was allergic *to her mother's milk*; once she was shifted to formula, she was OK. The diversity, including that of allergies is mind-boggling <g>
I'm allergic to my own perspiration... It never *really* surfaced in Poland (except when I wore clothes made with more than 50% "un-natural" fiber), because Poland is not as hot and humid as VA; I used to call it "the American disease". When I started to ask the doctors (at regular check-ups; doesn't cost to ask an extra question <g>), all I ever got was "impossible; doesn't happen", Then DH made me go to his skin-doctor, who coolly said "happens all the time, and here's a cream to take care of it". I've since ran out of the cream (and don't remember what i its name was, either), but I've been less reluctant to switch on the AC since :)
---- Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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