---could somebody help ?
jean-claude

>Hi all.
>
>This is a question on behalf of a friend.
>Her dd is almost 2y now. A few months ago dd fainted, was brought to
>hospital and it was discovered she has diabetes. Her sugar level was
>extremely high. The history of this case is sad: When the child was
>born, in hospital, the blood test showed high sugar level, so the mother
>was ordered not to BF for a day or two, and the newborn was fed formula,
>and BF started only after that. When the diabetes was exposed, the
>mother did some research and discovered that changing diet in the first
>days from formula to mother milk makes the risk of the diabetes to “come
>out”  5 times higher (than if the diet wasn’t changed).
>
>Any how, when they were released from hospital after birth no one told
>them that the baby is in risk and to monitor the sugar. Now they know
>that the sooner it was discovered – the better, some damage to the
>pancreas could have been avoided.
>
>Now the child is on very very strict diet, insulin is injected 3 times a
>day, and still they don’t manage to control the sugar level. The child
>is getting into “hypoglycemia” often.
>All the doctors and the stuff that is in contact with the parents are
>pressing very hard on  the mother to stop BF immediately. (“press hard”
>is an understatement – the health institutes in Israel is not BF
>friendly at all), claiming that “We can’t know how much sugar or protein
>there is in your milk”.
>The mother doesn’t  want to quit; now the doctors gave her an extension
>– one month of even more hard and strict  diet, and then they’ll see.
>
>The parents doesn’t know anyone with a child who is BFed at this age
>*and* has diabetes. (BF till "old" age is not common here).
>
>What else do I know? The mother is 30y more or less. She doesn’t keep a
>diet of her own food since a LLL guide, who is also a physician, told
>her that research shows that the mother diet has very little influence
>on the contents of the milk regarding sugar and protein.
>The health institute refuses to send sample of the mother milk to lab.
>(“too expensive”).
>
>Any  information / knowledge / links / tips ???
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>Aviya Nussbaum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
>
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