Consultants’Corner Consultants’Corner Consultants ’ Corner Colic and Food Allergy in the Breastfed Infant: Is It Possible for an Exclusively Breastfed Infant to Suffer From Food Allergy?

Ms. Green, the mother of a 2-week-old infant, calls the lactation consultant with concerns that “my baby doesn’t like my milk. ” Baby Patric was born at 41 weeks gestation, the product of a spontaneous vaginal delivery, weighing 3.8 kg at birth. At 2 weeks of age, Patric is well above birth weight, weighing 4.4 kg. Patric has been exclusively breastfed since birth, with feedings going well. Ms. Green has a 3-year-old daughter who was breastfed for 4 months. Ms. Green then decided to switch her daughter to soy formula because of unending colic, which Ms. Green reports as “disappearing over-night ” once she stopped breastfeeding. Because of her daughter’s past history, Ms. Green is worried that “there is something wrong with my milk ” as this baby is also very colicky