In response to Ruth Scuderi's alert about Dr. David Paige's comment on milk allergy, I wrote the following e-mail to Dr. Paige asking for clarification: To: Dr. David M. Paige When you made the comment "True milk allergy to human milk or formula occurs in only 1 percent to 8 percent of all babies and is not related to lactose intolerance" were you contending that 1 to 8 percent of infants were allergic to human milk protein or were you making a more generic statement that would include the allergy which some infants develop to cow's milk and other foreign proteins which enter into human milk from maternal ingestion. Please clarify your statement and provide references regarding allergy to human milk protein. It is often stated that there is no evidence for allergy to human milk protein. I know of no evidence of allergy to human milk protein. Larry Gartner, MD I'm sorry I didn't save his followup, but Dr. Gartner later reported that Dr. Paige wrote back and said that he meant cow's milk protein coming through from mom's consumption and that there was no evidence of babies being allergic directly to their mother's milk.