>Tammy Alexander wrote:
> I am thinking of trying her on something I have heard of called "Good
>Start" by carnation. I believe they say it is after formula but before
>the milk.  Does this have any milk in it?

Debbie Kemf wrote:
>Last time I looked, the kosher certification on Carnation Good Start Soy
>indicated the presence of dairy.

Indeed, it contains whey, but not casein.  It is possible to be allergic
to each of these proteins, but I think that more people are allergic to
casein.  In addition, the whey in good start is "broken down" (by which
I assume they mean hydrolyzed).  If it were fully broken down into
individual amino acids, no one could be allergic to it (but I imagine it
would not taste good).  So it is probably broken down into chunks of
the original protein.  Many children allergic to the whole protein will
be able to tolerate the smaller chunks, but certainly not all.

My milk-allergic (and soy-allergic) son did well on alimentum, which
contains hydrolyzed casein, but our doctor told us that 25% of
milk-allergic children are still sensitive to the casein in its
hydrolyzed form, and then can't take that.  I don't know what
proportion of milk-allergic children would be sensitive to hydrolyzed
(if that is what they do to it; it just says "specially processed into
smaller pieces") whey.

see http://www.carnationbaby.com/Y/Ya3a.html

Because a good proportion (I forget the figures) of milk-allergic
infants are also soy-allergic, our doctor had us go straight to
the hydrolyzed casein formuls, skipping over the soy. YMMV

Consider also what else is in the formula though.  If you have a child
allergic to milk you may want, as much as possible, to avoid early
exposure to other high-probability allergens, including corn.  I chose
Alimentum over Nutramigen for my son because the latter was sweetened
with corn syrup, as are most formulas.  Alimentum did not have corn listed
in the ingredients.  This was 2 years ago.

Good luck!!

--Robyn (who actually breastfeeds said allergic son, but who used formula
to cut his exposure to my milk while I got all of his allergens out of my
system)