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> On Sun, 10 May 1998 17:52:53 EDT Kebridan <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >Did you ever use a formula and if you did what was it?  If a mother has
> to
> >stop breast feeding for some reason and does not want to use a regular
> or soy
> >formula, what choices are there if there is a family history of problems
> to
> >these products?
>
> I didn't find any on the supermarket shelves without corn.  I don't know
> of any without soy.  Dr. Rapp's book lists two sans corn, but at least
> one (Nursoy) is not available in the US anymore as far as I know.  I'm
> still looking for Ricelyte to use instead of Pedialyte which is corn
> based.

Alimentum has no corn and no soy listed on the ingredient label.  It
uses cane sugar for sweetener.  It *is* based on cow's milk protein,
however.  It contains "hydrolyzed casein" which is a milk protein
broken down into smaller pieces that most milk-allergic children,
including mine, can tolerate.  However our doctor told us that
approximately 25% of milk-allergic babies still react to the hydrolyzed
casein, and then they have to move on to some special-order brands
based on other proteins.

Around here CVS pharmacies carry Alimentum where they keep the "normal"
formulas.

Hope this helps.

--Robyn