The daughter of a friend of mine had a baby about two weeks ago. The baby
lost some weight and the doctors did some tests on the baby. One was for
Galactosemia. The baby was negative for this.

But this got me wondering about what this was and I looked it up on the
web... apparently this is an inherited disease and can cause brain damage
in the infant. It is the inability of the liver to process galactose, a
sugar in milk, and one of the things they do is have the mother stop
breastfeeding.

Makes me wonder, are there sugars in mother's breast milk that are the same
as those in cow's and other mammals' milk?

This is new to me, so excuse me if this has already been discussed here.

Can anyone give me other info about this that might satisfy my curiosity?
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