>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)