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Article: Assisting Families in Making Appropriate Feeding Choices: Cow's Milk Protein Allergy versus Lactose Intolerance.
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- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Though most infants tolerate breast feedings or formula feedings without difficulty, there are a small number of infants who exhibit irritability, flatulence, diarrhea, and other symptoms of maldigestion with breast feedings or with feedings of traditional milk-based formulas. In these circumstances, parents and clinicians often choose to treat the child by changing his or her formula. The wide variety of infant formulas currently available affords families and health care providers with many feeding options. Unfortunately, this situation has created considerable confusion. For example, the use of soy-based infant formulas in the United States has increased by nearly 50% ...